$myfile = fopen(“testData.txt”, “r”) or die(“Unable to open file!”); echo fread($myfile,filesize(“testData.txt”)); fclose($myfile);
Above works! The following fails using either “a”-append or “w”-write!
$myfile = fopen(“testData.txt”, “a”) or die(“Unable to open file!”); $txt = “John Doe\n”; fwrite($myfile, $txt); $txt = “Jane Doe\n”; fwrite($myfile, $txt); fclose($myfile);
ls -l returns: -rw-rw-rw-. 1 user user 24 Dec24 07:54 testData.txt
I am sure that it is a permissions issue somewhere, but no clue where to look. PHP file and the data file are in the same directory (I know this is not good practice - just trying to eliminate as many variables as possible).
Thank you in advance.
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Hi @revans2695,
It’s possible you’ve or any other system has made the file immutable. Please execute the following command on the file
lsattr testData.txt
It will show you the attributes of the file. Example
lsattr test
----i---------e--- test
The above example shows the file has a tag of -i and -e. The -i tag means immutable while the -e tag means executable. To remove the -i tag, you would need to do
chattr -i test
Regards, KDSys
Hi @revans2695,
It does seem exactly like that, if you are able to open it with the user from the shell and not from the browser, I would say exactly that.
Regards, KDSys
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