Are you running PHP as Apache module, right?
httpd is running as nobody by default. Thus you can only access files as
nobody.
This has been asked many times and I'm sure you'll find useful articles
in archive.
Yasuo Ohgaki
Jack A. wrote:
> I'm having a problem with file permissions within my PHP document when
> running on an Apache web server.
>
> When accessing a perl script or an executable from the cgi-bin directory the
> web server runs the script as the correct user and group id. However then a
> PHP document is accessed within the same directories as any of my other HTML
> documents the web server runs the PHP document as the user "nobody". I
> found this out by calling the PHP function posix_getuid() within this PHP
> document. The problem is that the data files that are own by my account are
> not accessible to my PHP document since PHP is running as user "nobody". I'
> m aware that the Apache web server runs as user "nobody" then switches to
> the owner of the cgi-bin directory when executing a script, so how do I get
> the web server to switch to user "myaccount" when executing a PHP document
> from the root directory of the web account including its subdirectories?
>
> The following is my PHP test documents:
> On this server user id 99 is "nobody".
>
> =====================================
> File test.php
> =====================================
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>PHP Test</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <?php
> echo PHP_VERSION;
> echo "<br>";
>
> $uid = posix_getuid();
> $gid = posix_getgid();
>
> echo "UID=$uid GID=$gid <br>";
>
> echo "Opening for read index.html<br>";
> $file = fopen ("index.html", "r");
> if($file != 0) fclose($file);
>
> echo "Opening for write new.html<br>";
> $file = fopen ("new.html", "w");
> if($file != 0) fclose($file);
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> =====================================
> Output from the web browser
> =====================================
> 4.0.6
> UID=99 GID=99
> Opening for read index.html
> Opening for write new.html
>
> Warning: fopen("new.html","w") - Permission denied in
> /www/myaccount/test.php on line 20
>
>
>
>
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