In article <99dcc5$vm0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Phil") wrote:
> I have tried using multiple PHP content manager programs and cannot seem to
> get any of them to save files that have been edited over the web interface
> unless the file permissions are set to let everybody write to them.
>
> Of course, we don't want to have out files writeable by the world. I have
> tried using these different managers in their own directories, even
> protected the directories with a .htaccess file. The same ID that I allow to
> access the directory is also the owner of the file.
>
> What seems to happen once I get authenticated and allowed into the
> directory, I may be wrong here, is that my server thinks I am a 'nobody' and
> so when I submit the file changes I get permissions error. Everything works
> fine with all of the different programs I've tried; if I simply give
> everybody write access to the file, but that is not an option.
Yes, your web server is apparently running as user "nobody", a common
configuration. See the manual chapter on security for more info on setting
proper file permissions with PHP.
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