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Enabled PHP functions: fopen, fclose, fwrite

Posted on July 17, 2016
Eric

By Eric

I just setup my first Ubuntu server and things were going smoothly until I realized that my tiny php script:

<?php
	// write email to a file
	if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
		$myfile = fopen("emails.txt", "a") or die("Unable to open file!");
		$txt = $_POST['email']."\n";
		fwrite($myfile, $txt);
		fclose($myfile);
	}
?>

was no longer working… I poked around the help boards, but couldn’t find any articles that were hand-holdy enough to get me a solution. Wondering if anyone can help!



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Congratulations on your first server!

Try setting ownership of the emails.txt file by running the commands below. I’m assuming your php and emails.txt files are located in /var/www/html folder, if not you can change the path of the command below.

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

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