fopen() gives permission denied error - despite chmod 777

Question

I get the following error on my Fedora 20 desktop running the LAMP stack when trying to use fopen()

Warning: fopen(/var/www/html/php/documents/orders.txt):

failed to open stream:

Permission denied in /var/www/html/php/processorder.php on line 76

The code I used is

$fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/php/documents/orders.txt", 'ab');

orders.txt has the following permissions

[root@localhost documents]# pwd

/var/www/html/php/documents

[root@localhost documents]# ls -l

total 4

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 byron web-content 12 Feb 21 12:33 orders.txt

I realise this question has been asked a number of times, but none of the solutions have worked for me. I am new to Linux/Fedora and to LAMP so I apologise if the error is borne out of ignorance.

Edit: Seems like SELinux was causing the problem, not sure how to overcome this in terms of changing settings in SELinux, so I disabled it.

To see whether SELinux is being enforced (I'm using Fedora 20) use /usr/sbin/sestatus .

To disable SELinux, configure SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config .

Answer 1

Seems like SELinux was causing the problem, not sure how to overcome this in terms of changing settings in SELinux, so I disabled it.

To see whether SELinux is being enforced (I'm using Fedora 20) use /usr/sbin/sestatus.

To disable SELinux, configure SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config.