chmod

Hello all. I have a phpfile which is calling a script "texthisjob". This script reads a file, copies it and needs to write another file.

This script should not be able to be called by others on the web, except if they use that certain php-file. The php-file should be accessible for all.

I've heared I can set the permissions to the file with chmod. Can anybody help me with that, I don't know what permissions to set on each file.
(upload.php and texthisjob).

Thanks in advance.

Say PHP was installed as a module of Apache, upload.php just need -rw-r--r-- (644). For texthisjob, it should be -rwxr-xr-x (755).

>> needs to write another file

The directory such file resides in needs to be at least drwx---rwx (707) assuming Apache runs as nobody. Then this file can be created. If this file already exists but needs to be modified/replaced, alter your textthisjob script and chmod the file to -rw-r--rw- (646) when created.

I don't code PHP, so how to code upload.php is up to you to find out yourself. Check the PHP forum, calling a Perl script from PHP script has been asked and answered at least few million times, so do a search there.

Your message is a bit off topic here.

chmod is apache/unix-related, isn't it?

I wasn't asking for php-code

But thanx anyway.

>> chmod is apache/unix-related, isn't it?

Not Apache-related but UNIX-related. You can request Devshed to take those quiet+useless forums like vi and emacs off and put up a UNIX-related or even Mail+DNS+FTP forums up.