I am trying to write to a directory using PHP5. The commands I am using are : $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../orders/orders.txt", "ab"); $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../orders/orders.txt", "w"); $fp = fopen("orders.txt", "w"); The top one of the 3 is straight out of the book. The scripts I am using are out of the “PHP and MySQL Web Development” book by Welling Thomson, so the code is all good. The message I got is as follows: Warning: fopen(/var/www/html/../orders/orders.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/processorder.php on line 129 I tried to write to other directories and that failed too, the directories concerned had read and write permissions enabled for everyone. I checked the value of $DOCUMENT_ROOT and it is as I expected i.e.: /var/www/html/../orders/orders.txt /var/www/orders is a writeable directory for everyone Do you know why I cannot write to this directory, I guess I have a config problem somewhere, but I have no idea.

Is orders.txt itself changed to 777

and the actually folder its in that will fix it Jaydiocity.co.uk

Thanks, but this does not help. The files and the directories are all read and writeable. Any other suggestions? Orders.txt is 666, I changed it to 777, but it didn't help as expected.