PHP no permission to write to file in MAC

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I am using XAMPP(PHP APACHE MYSQL) to develop a program in MAC. When I try to use JPGRAPH to write to file, code: $fileName = "/img/bar.png"; $graph->img->Stream($fileName); I got this warning: Cant write to file, check that the process running PHP has enough permission. I searched a lot, and tried many ways: 1.sudo chmod 777 ~/File/Java/img 2.change user name in Apache httpd.conf (default username is nobody) 3.mkdir($create_path, 0777). Still I cant figure it out. Any suggestion?

Is the image directory outside the project directory? – Kneel-Before-ZOD Nov 21 '12 at 05:43 — Kneel-Before-ZOD, Nov 21 '12 at 05:43
img directory is under the project dir – Li' Nov 21 '12 at 05:59 — Li', Nov 21 '12 at 05:59

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 05:43

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Try removing the / at the start of /img/bar.png

answered Nov 21 '12 at 05:43

James McDonnell

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Agreed. You are attempting to write relative to the root of the boot disk, not relative to your application. – Joshua Kaiser Nov 21 '12 at 05:48
Yep, you could also just prepend a . to your path like so ./img/bar.png – James McDonnell Nov 21 '12 at 05:55
Just tried removing the /, but still got the same warning msg. – Li' Nov 21 '12 at 05:58
could you post your file hierarchy starting at the root of your application, and tell us which file this code is in? – James McDonnell Nov 21 '12 at 06:00
the code is in the file named barshow.php, path: ~/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/Twitter/barshow.php. Twitter dir is the project dir. img dir is also in the Twitter dir: .../Twitter/img – Li' Nov 21 '12 at 06:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 06:11

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Try

 
   $root = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/img";
   $fileName = "$root/bar.png";

Hope this helps.

answered Nov 21 '12 at 06:11

Kneel-Before-ZOD

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