hey niel. thanks man... thats wierd, why does it need to be full? how would i have been able to figure that out? appreciate it.. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Smth [mailto:php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:53 PM To: Cc: pihrig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Subject: Hitcounter works on production server but not on localhost Its not a permissions thing. You need to ensure that you provide PHP with a full path to the hit counter file : countrerlog.txt is a relative path. c:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\WCBE\\countrterlog.txt is a full path. You need to do the same with the relative path to FX_DataCounter/wcbecounter.txt as well Cheers - Neil. At 13:25 20/11/2003 +0000, you wrote: >From: "Paul Ihrig" <pihrig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:16:11 -0500 >Subject: works on production server but not on localhost > >hey guys.. >just getting back in to using a little php. > >have 2 simple hit counters that work fine on the production server. >but on my localhost it throughs several errors. looks like a permissions >thing? > >i am not sure if there is a setting in my php.ini file that needs to be >tweaked. >kind of blind to the errors. > >looks like a permissions thing? > >hit counter: Warning: fopen("counterlog.txt", "w") - Permission denied in >C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 4 Warning: fwrite(): supplied >argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in >C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 5 Warning: fclose(): supplied >argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in >C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 6 12 >hit counter2: 00001 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php