Question

Recently moved server and trying to get everything set up. My memcache class writes logs, something I need for development.

edit: server running Ubuntu 12.04.

the webroot is
/var/www/public_html

the log file is in /var/www/logs/

Here are the directory permissions

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       1415 Sep  6 11:53 default
drwxrwxr-x 2 root webmasters 4096 Sep  6 12:48 logs
drwxrwxr-x 8 root webmasters 4096 Sep  6 12:32 public_html

Here are the permissions from /var/www/logs

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters 116103 Sep  6 13:02 access.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters  16094 Sep  6 12:48 error.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters      0 Sep  6 12:48 memcache.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters   9861 Sep  6 13:02 php_log.log

The file being browser to is /var/www/public_html/index.php

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters 5660 Sep  6 01:51 /var/www/public_html/index.php

Index includes /var/www/public_html/includes/cache.php

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root webmasters 4602 Sep  6 12:47 /var/www/public_html/includes/cache.php

Group members:

grep 'webmasters' /etc/group
webmasters:x:1002:sftp_chris,www-data

I have even tried changing /logs and /memcache.log to chmod 777.

Not really understanding why this is happening, as you can see php is writing its log file to /logs/php.log without issue.

Any ideas? I’m absolutely baffled.

I thought maybe it had something to do with php-suhosin but couldn’t find anything there.

the function:

function write_to_log($string){

    $file = '/var/www/memcache.log';
    $fh = fopen($file, 'a');
    $contents = @fread($fh, filesize($file));
    $stringData = $contents."[".date('H.i:s d-m-y')."] ".$string;
    fwrite($fh, $stringData);
    fclose($fh);
}

Answer 1

You write to /var/www/memcache.log, not /var/www/logs/memcache.log for which you show permissions.

(why do you read the log before writing to it?)