I am trying to copy a file to user's directory. I run a small hosting service with every user having a seperate directory. I can't CHMOD the directories to allow the PHP (www-data) user as that will break FTP for the users and some other programs we have installed on our server.
However, PHP (the www-data) user, is allowed to run with sudo. is this a possible fix? If it is: how to run copy() with sudo.
If that is not possible, is there another solution for my problem?
Exact error:
PHP Warning: copy(/home/user_946221/383838/Modules/xxx.zip): failed
to open stream: Permission denied in
/panel/handlers/server_functions/download.php
Thanks,
Jesse
You should be able to do exec("sudo cp from to")
Best regards
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I am working on Laravel 4. On remote server I took backup of old laravel.log and created new one and restored old one again by removing newly created one. Since then I am getting error:
Error in exception handler: The stream or file "/var/www/stage/webapp/app/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/staging_html/webapp/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php:84
I even change mode and but it did not work either. It's not happening across system, just a particular page.
I am on Amazon AWS
You recreated the file, so the permissions have changed, and apache can no longer access it. Run this in command line to set the permissions:
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/stage/webapp/app/storage/logs/laravel.log
That's if you're using apache. It changes ownership of the file to apache (web server). If the web server user isn't www-data. Find out by typing:
ls -l
In the command line to see what user owns the other files in your laravel directory. Replace www-data:www-data with the user that owns the other web files.
To be clear the left side of the colon is user group and the right side is the user. If you have a specific user group that needs access to those files as well like git or ftp, you may need to set it like this:
git:www-data
ftp:www-data
group:user //generic example
It just depends on your access requirements. If you have questions let me know.
Hi I am new to Mac and web development..
These days I am trying to do a simple web page with a simple form with HTML and Javascript, and the form will be processed by PHP. The PHP will be access txt file, read from and write to this txt file.
The error message comes from this line of code.
file_put_contents("order.txt", $content);
and the error message is
Warning: file_put_contents(order.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Users/maoyang/Sites/3006/process.php on line 57
all the HTML and PHP codes are in the myname/Sites/3006 folder of my computer. I have done some research and all of them tells me that I need to change some configuration to make the txt file writeable, but really very confused how to do so. Anyone know a good instruction page I could follow(for mac environment).
Thank you very much..
On OSX Apache is run by the _www user. You need to make sure that this user has permissions to write on the file you want to modify. To do so, open a terminal window and type:
sudo chown -R _www:_www /Users/maoyang/Sites/3006
Fill in your Administrator user password when requested. This will change the ownership of the /Users/maoyang/Sites/3006 folder to the _www user (the same one that run Apache) so the webserver will have writing permission on that folder (and all subfolders and files)
The php script is unable to create file owing to denial of permissions.
PHP Script:
<?
echo exec('whoami');
file_put_contents('/var/www/html/sample.txt','Some random Text');
?>
Output :
apache
**Warning**: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/test/samds.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in **/var/www/html/index.php** on line **3**
The directory permissions are all 777
I have had same issue and i misplaced some configuration.Firstly remeber that the user who created the php file can read the file and if the user who created php file is different than the apache user in your case it is apache in that case you will get this exception if you try to write from different users.So what you have to do is simply,and i would suggest you to revoke the 777 permissions as i do not like idea of your files being publicity available on read and write to the world,so get it back to 755 and do the next on the command line of your server.
cd /var/www
change the user of the HTML only as we need it to be writable only,so do not touch the var and www,so basically as soon as you have navigated to he www directory you are going to change the HTML directory owner to the one who is currently running the apache server,and you got that info already,in your case it is apache so we are going to do the next,
chown apache:apache html
At this stage the html file owner will be apache so you will be able to write onto it.Anyway and meanwhile i would strongly suggest you to create separate directory inside html lets say testDir and try there,i would not suggest to change the root folder permissions,i had bad experience with them.Anyway i hope it will help as i suffer more then hour and just now got the right way to do it.This got my issue fixed,hope it will fix your's too.!
I have a PHP script to copy all files in a directory i have change my server now its not copying index.php file all other files copy successfully and throw bellow warnings.
Warning: ftp_get(tmp/readme.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/Site.com/httpdocs/includes/ftp.class.php on line 123
Warning: ftp_get(): Error opening tmp/readme.txt in /var/www/vhosts/Site.com/httpdocs/includes/ftp.class.php on line 123
Warning: fopen(tmp/readme.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/Site.com/httpdocs/includes/clone.php on line 196
Seems like a permission issue on the new server. Double check the server directory you're accessing to make sure, you and apache have the appropriate permissions.
Like the error message says: Permission denied, in other words your script does not have permission to access the file tmp/readme.txt. Check that the user your PHP script is using has read access to the file/folder. The way to check that depends on what your server setup is so can't give more unless you provide more info about what your server is running.
Welcome to the unix world. It is a permission problem. If you have rights, you can fix it with the command chmod in the server.
$ ssh username#server
$ chmod PERMISSIONS /path/to/filr
check the man page of chmod to understand the permissions. probably you do something like this : +w
It seems this permission issue, not in the new server but in the old server.
Please check owner:group of the index.php file in old server, so that your script can access and manipulate the origin file.
One more thing. Did you run the ftp transfer script, in the browser or in the command line?
This is very important, because one can run the script with APACHE user (www-data) and the other method run the script with your system user.
For a project I need my php file to create a dynamic file (on remote server which I bought) which loads into a flash component. Everything is working fine on my localhost. But once I upload it to the server, it throws the following errors:
Warning: fopen(output.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\x.co.in\httpdocs\blabla.php on line 25
Warning: DOMDocument::save(k_id.xml) [domdocument.save]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\x.co.in\httpdocs\blabla.php on line 136
where on those lines fopen is written.
I understood as there is no permission to my php file to create any dynamic files on the server. So i just wanna understand is there a way by which I can privilege my php to create that file on the server.
I've the login access, which I think I've to put somewhere in code before it tries to create such file...but i dont know how to figure this...any suggestions?
The user that runs the PHP process needs to have permissions to write new files in the target folder. On linux servers this is done using CHMOD.
chmod 777 -R /path/to/folder
777 is the permission (full permission for testing only), -R means recursive for the files/folders inside. As you are using windows just right click on the folder and look at properties and search for permissions.
Create a new directory where the PHP will write the files. For that directory set permissions to 705 (that is owner has Read, Write, Execute permission)
You can either do that using a FTP client (Filezilla) or via a Bash shell
mkdir inputfiles
chmod 705 inputfiles