Script won't write file out

PHP
1

So I’ve got a bit of code that saves some modifications to a file:


$fh = fopen('index.php', 'w');
if ($fh) {
  for ($line = 0; $line < count($index); $line++) {
    fwrite($fh, $index[$line]);
  }
  fclose($fh);
  $messages[] = array("success","The script was modified to enable $include.");
  return TRUE;
}
else {
  // Could not save the script -- probably a permissions error.
  // Tell the user what the file should look like.
  $message = "Could not automatically enable $include. Modify <b>index.php</b> to look like this:\
\
". showCode($index, $start);
  $messages[] = array("error",$message);
  return FALSE;
}

I’m not getting an error on fopen or fwrite, but it’s clear the file isn’t being writen out. It seems to be a server issue, since the script works on another server; however, I don’t know what to look for.

Any suggestions for troubleshooting this?

2

What I guess I’m asking is, “is there a runtime configuration or other directive that would keep the script from writing the file out on this particular server?”

3

check the server configuration for write permission

4

!&*@$~!$!!! This issue showed up last month with a different piece of software and I didn’t correlate the two. For some !@$# reason both Safari and Firefox are caching pages from this server – or the server itself is caching the pages.

In today’s issue, either the browser wasn’t requesting the script again or the server wasn’t running it again. I want to blame the server, since this problem doesn’t occur with other servers.

I’m not familiar with cache control and PHP – how can I force the server (or browser) to run the script again?

5

Didn’t get a lot of help from my web host. Seems that the server that my account was moved to recently is sending “Cache-Control: max-age=1209600” for every page request. Using:

Header set Cache-Control: “no-cache”

in my .htaccess file overrides that, but they can’t tell me why the server is behaving badly.