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    copied!<p>Im trying to make a php file write to a file that resides in the same folder. Both the php file and the file its trying to write to have their permissions set to 777 (its a linux server) as well as the folder they reside in. Whenever I called fopen() with the 'w' or 'w+' mode, the function just returns false. Its on my school's webserver, so there is no way I can get root access to change the owner of the file to the same user as apache. Does anyone know whats wrong?</p> <p>Update: As a test, I was using this code:</p> <pre><code>$handle = fopen("test.txt", 'w'); if($handle === FALSE) echo "\nfailed"; else echo "\nsuccess"; fclose($handle); </code></pre> <p>The output now with error reporting enabled is:</p> <pre><code>Warning: fopen(test.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /&lt;snip&gt;/public_html/test.php on line 58 failed Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /&lt;snip&gt;/public_html/test.php on line 63 </code></pre> <p>Above that is some code I copied from the php website for the fileperms() function which checks the permissions of the text file, and its reporting -rwxrwxrwx</p> <p>The ls -al output of the relevant files is </p> <pre><code>ls -al *test* -rwxrwxrwx 1 mag5 30 1475 Dec 9 00:02 test.php* -rwxrwxrwx 1 mag5 30 8 Dec 8 14:54 test.txt* </code></pre> <p>Also Im not sure if this matters, but my school uses something called the Andrew File system (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System</a>).</p>
 

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