Giving PHP write permission in Apache

Question

I\'m relatively new to configuring Apache.

I have a PHP script that writes a JSON file based on values retrieved from $_GET.

Answer 1

Check the file permission either in command line using:

ls -l /path/filename

Or through your ftp client if you have ftp access to the file/dir. If not, you could change the location like Stony said above.

Answer 2

You can try to set the permissions with

chmod function for php and set your directory to /var/www there you have normally enough permissions.

Answer 3

Know that sometimes there is absolutely no way to get around this using PHP only.

The two solutions to this are:

1. Configure PHP and Apache permissions manually (warning: can get dirty very quickly).
2. Use FTP to change ownership to 0777 (full access) and then revert after running changes.

I've often found the latter option to work best.

Answer 4

You need to check if the user under which runs apache has permission to write into the directory.

So it's like this:

Your apache server is process. The process runs under some user (say www). The PHP runs under apache. So if you try to write into a directory in PHP it is the same as if the user www logs into the server and tries to create a file in the same directory. So check who is owner of that directory and which permission do it have. You can do it e.g. via ls -la command. If www will be owner of that directory, you will be 100% safe ...

Answer 5

Check the file/directory permissions that it is trying to write to. Make sure that it is writable by the user and/or group that the Apache process is running as.

Also check to see if SELinux is enabled by checking the contents of /selinux/enforce. If it is, either disable it or make sure the proper labels are set on the path that you are writing to.