its most likely because the web server is running as nobody
and the file is owned by your user.
you can make the file writable to everyone by type :
chmod goa+rwx <filename>
or to be safe you can install SuExec on apache, it will execute the cgis
as the user who owns them..
Ryan
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Geraint Jones wrote:
> I'm stuck! I want to write to a text file through a CGI script in
> append/truncate mode, but every time I am told I don't have permission. I'm
> running Linux, I've changed ownership and group to nobody and nogroup to no
> avail.
>
> What do I have to do to get it to work? Security is not an issue (yet!).
>
> Geraint.
>
