Having trouble writing to a file with PHP on Ubuntu
After some more research, I've got it figured out. Here is the solution for anyone having the same problem:
Since localhost belongs to the www-data group, I just added my user to that group.
sudo usermod -a -G www-data my_usernameThen, I added the folder to the group.
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/wwwThen, I gave write permissions to the www-data group.
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/wwwThis worked for me without any other issue. Thanks!
You can verify that you have the permission on the folder '/html/Projects/MD_ScrapingTool/files/' and try with an absolute path.
Try giving the absolute path and the filename with open:
$file = '/html/Projects/MD_ScrapingTool/files/filetest.txt';If the file does not exist, fopen should create the file with 'w' mode.