who owns the file to begin with? your account? a web server typically runs
as a low access account, such as "nobody" on Unix. So, what is probably
happening is that you don't have permissions to chmod the file. Doesn't have
anything to do with your PHP configuration.
Jason Bell
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From: "Police Trainee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: [PHP] chmod failed: Operation not permitted
> can anyone help?
> safe mode is set to "0", which i believe is "off".
>
> i put a chmod command in one of my scripts and got the
> following error on running it:
>
> Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted in
> /path-here/index.phtml on line 1
>
> why won't chmod work?
>
> the chmod command i used is: <?chmod("../index.phtml",
> 0646);write data to file that has been made
> world-writable here; chmod("../index.phtml", 0644);}?>
>
> the full error printout is:
>
> Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted in
> /path-here/index.phtml on line 1
>
> Warning: fopen("../index.phtml","a") - Permission
> denied in
> /path here/index.phtml on line 1
>
> Warning: Unable to find file identifier 0 in
> /path here/index.phtml on line 2
>
> Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted in
> /path-here/index.phtml on line 2
>
> I know the second error is because the file wasn't
> made world-writable so it wasn't able to write to it,
> i don't know what the third error is for
>
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