Question

The script is in myusername/public_html/item/index.php

code to save file:

$filename = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/../data/guestbook.txt';
        $filehandle = fopen($filename, 'ab+') or die("<p>Unable to create the file!</p>\n".$filename);
        flock($filehandle, LOCK_EX) or die("<p>Unable to lock the file!</p>\n");
        fwrite($filehandle, $new_entry) or die("<p>Unable to write to the file!</p>\n");
        fclose($filehandle);

For some reason it fails on the fopen and the filename is actually ends up being literally with the /../ instead of navigating to the proper path.

What to do, what to do?

Answer 1

you can code like this if the php script is in the item folder and item and data are at the same level in the directory hierarchy

$savedir = '../data/';
$filename = $savedir.'guestbook.txt';

make sure apache user has the write access to the directory by “chown -R apache:apache” and “chmod 755”.

Probably the ” /../ ” in your code is giving the error. Try removing the first forward slash.