Am Donnerstag, den 04.10.2007, 10:53 +1000 schrieb Chris: > > mmh wonder what could possibly be wrong when even trying 777? :-) > > Some hosts check for and disable access to files that have wide-open > permissions - usually when php is running as a cgi but I've seen it when > using mod_php too. Hi Chris, I've tried on a number of machines that have been setup either by me or an admin I know. So I can say with some confidence that this is not the case here :-) > If you try something other than 777 what happens? (644 just to see if > you can open it, then work on writing to it). As one would expect, this yields a different exception because the webserver can't open the database for write access anymore: PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 14 unable to open database file in /home/mwolff/webs/markus/cms/test.php on line 6 > Can you see the file from this script? > > $file = dirname(__FILE__) . '/frontend.db'; > echo is_file($file) . '<br?>'; Yep. CU Markus -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Wolff Development NorthClick GmbH Gasstr. 10 - 22761 Hamburg Tel.: 040 8 22 44 999 - Fax: 040 8 22 44 998 Internet: http://www.northclick.de/ Geschäftsführer: F. Detzner | M. Henze | C. Springub Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 94459 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php