On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:39 AM Willie M <matthews.willie80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/7/19 12:51 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:41 PM Willie M <matthews.willie80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 5/7/19 12:33 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > >>> I have a PHP app and it runs from /var/www/html/foo. It writes to a > >>> log file in there log.txt. To do some testing I created a dir > >>> /var/www/html/foo.new and installed the code there. To switch back and > >>> forth I do this: > >>> > >>> mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.old > >>> mv /var/www/html/foo.new /var/www/html/foo > >>> > >>> When I do that I get an error writing to the log file: > >>> > >>> Error #2: fopen(/var/www/html/foo/log.txt): failed to open stream: > >>> Permission denied > >>> > >>> But if I switch back: > >>> > >>> mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.new > >>> mv /var/www/html/foo.old /var/www/html/foo > >>> > >>> I do not get the error. The code is identical in foo and foo.new and > >>> the perms and owner on log.txt is identical in too and foo.new. I have > >>> tried restating apache and rebooting the machine, but no joy. > >>> > >>> What could be causing the permission error? > >> Who owns the foo.new and the foo.old directories? That is most likely > >> where the problem is. > > Both are owned by root.root with mode 755. I tried chmod-ing foo.old > > to 777 but still get the error. > > If I am not mistaken 755 is rwxr-xr-x by root if it is owned by root. > The php files are ran by www or whoever it runs for on your computer. So > it isn't going to be a writeable file at all in that folder if the file > isn't made yet and if it is made in the folder you have to make sure > whoever runs php can write to the file. > > You have to check on all this. I am sure it is permissions. Yes, as I said in my pervious message I tried chown-ing all the dirs to 777 but I still get the error.
