Mari Masuda wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is probably a dumb newbie question. I am running PHP 5.2.5 and
> Apache 2.2.8 on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.4.11. I compiled PHP and Apache
> from source a while ago (as opposed to using the built-in web server
> that is included w/ Mac OS X). I have written the below PHP whose
> purpose is to read an existing comma separated (CSV) file and save the
> data into a text file that I can later copy and paste from into my
> website content management system. The problem is that on my Mac, I
> cannot seem to figure out what permissions I need to set in order to
> make the input CSV and the initially non-existant output text file
> readable and writable by Apache/PHP. I have Googled and come across
> many pages about different ways to set permissions and different
> permissions to set but none of the ways suggested that I tried seemed to
> work for me. As a temporary solution, I uploaded my PHP file to a
> Windows 2003 server running Apache and PHP and it worked flawlessly (and
> makes me suspicious that there is some huge security hole with the
> Windows box since it was able to execute with no permissions
> modifications). Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Mari
>
> --- start my code ---
> <?php
>
> $in = fopen("/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/wp.csv", "r");
> $out =
> fopen("/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tableToCutAndPaste.txt", "w");
> $counter = 0;
>
>
> fwrite($out, "<table>\n");
>
> while(($data = fgetcsv($in)) !== FALSE) {
> $paperNumber = $data[0];
> $authors = $data[1];
> $title = $data[2];
> $filename = $paperNumber . ".pdf";
>
> if(($counter % 2) == 0) {
> fwrite($out, "<tr>\n");
> } else {
> fwrite($out, "<tr style=\"background: #cccccc;\">\n");
> }
>
> fwrite($out, "<td><a
> href=\"http://www.example.com/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.php?filename=$filename\">$paperNumber</a></td>\n");
>
> fwrite($out, "<td>$authors</td>\n");
> fwrite($out, "<td>$title</td>\n");
> fwrite($out, "</tr>\n");
>
> $counter++;
> }
>
> fwrite($out, "</table>\n");
>
>
> fclose($in);
> fclose($out);
>
> ?>
> --- end my code ---
What are the permissions on /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/ ?
Apache needs write permissions on that dir in order to create the file
tableToCutAndPaste.txt.
It's probably not a secure idea to give write permissions to that dir,
so maybe create a subdir of tmp and change those permissions (one way):
mkdir /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
chmod a+w /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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