Another option might be to create a directory in your web space to hold your file and open up just that directory as 777.

Steve

At 08:17 AM 6/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:
From: "frank reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have an account on shared server and am trying to
> write a logfile (a dump of an email which i use mail()
> to send) to a logfile in my home dir.  This logfile
> will grow with all emails send by my app and will thus
> give me an archive of sorts.
>
> However, because php is executed through apache as
> user nobody it does not have permission to write to my
> linux home dir (fopen("log.file","a")) fails with
> permission denied). I dont want to open my home dir to
> the world to allow this operation but I also dont want
> to write my log to /var/tmp as user nobody.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get php to write as me to
> my home dir ?

You can only get this with PHP as a CGI.

> I suppose i could write a shell script and have my app
> call this but that seems a bit convoluted.

Other option is to read/write the file over FTP, since you'll be able to log
in as you.

---John Holmes...


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