Re: [PHP] about writing permissions

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:53, George Papatheodorou wrote:
> The strange this is that user has writing access to the file, and so
> does his group. I even changed permissions to rw-rw-rw and the script
> could still not write in the file. The only solution came when I told
> the server manager to change the files owner to thttpd (not apache as
> mentioned above, it was only as an example) and then the script worked.
> I still wonder why this occurs and if there is any solution to it.

The user also needs to have execute permissions for the directory (and any
parent directories) containing the target file.

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