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"php fopen error"

Can anyone shed some light on the following problem?

I have three areas of web space on Freeola servers 2, 6 and 8.
On server 8 I have some graphics that I need to access from the other two servers. Before attempting to include the required graphics a check, using the php function 'fopen', is made to see if the file exists (if it doesn't a default graphic is used).

The code on server 2 works as expected, ie it finds the file, opens it and then closes it.

The code on server 6 is identical but generates a 'failed to open stream: Permission denied in /freeola/ users/ 6/ 9/ srnumber/ htdocs/ path/ functions.php on line xxx'

The thing that is puzzling me is that it works from one server but not the other. Any suggestions/ideas/solutions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm afraid I can't give a definite time scale. I passed this to the managers last week but the engineers haven't given us a reason why they cannot sort this yet. We know they can fix it otherwise all the servers would be suffering from this problem.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in getting this problem resolved.

How soon is soon? :o)

No I'm afraid not. I have had to escalate this to people higher up so it should be sorted soon. Apologies for the delay.

Any updates on this?

Not yet, still waiting to hear back. I sent the engineers a reminder yesterday but the was at about 7pm.

Any updates on this issue?

Hi,

I've been busy on other things for the last week or so and haven't been checking the forum. So apologies for the lack of communication.

I can confirm that the base_dir issue has been resolved. Thanks for that.

As postmanpat has provided example scripts that are causing issues I'll not duplicate the submission. If you do need any further information then please let me know.

Regards.

Thanks, received and forwarded on!

I must admit I thought you were asking for scripts to toshinmac other problem; the open_basedir one.
Anyway I've sent you my locations of a basic fopen script working on one server but causing the error on another 2 servers.
Lets hope this gets sorted soon.
Thanks.

Not yet. The server engineers have asked me for the location of scripts that are having problems so that is why I asked toshinmac to get in touch.
He hasn't done so yet so if you have scripts that are suffering the fopen problem then please send me their location (server and full path) and I can the forward them on.