Article Discussion: Working with Permissions in PHP, Part 1

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I realise there is probably a miriad of security issues with this, but if i write a script that creates a file (text) in a directory to contain content to be displayed to the page, even though i chmod the directory to 777 i still get an error that the file cannot be created.

i believe it is something to do with the hosting service php.ini
or the httpd.conf file and allowing write access to the specific directories while still blocking the write access to the rest of the site

i heave heard mention of changoing the ownership of those files to the user "nobody" (apache's default) but im not sure rexactly what to do to proceed.

many thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide

sounds like they may have safe mode enabled, you can always ask them about it