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[Druid Healer]

I placed a script in htdocs... and tried to run it in Opera but when I did, I got this message.

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Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/opt/lampp/htdocs/abc_2.6.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/lampp/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0


There is nothing on the first line except <?... which i changed to <?php to make sure it wasn't that or something and the second line is just a comment.

I ran a hello world script on xampp and encountered the same message, until it stopped and restarted it. After that the hello script ran.

I know the the script that is encountering this error message works because I have tested it on a different server. It does not access the mysql database and the script has worked on xampp for windows.

[Oswald]

Dear Druid!

I assume your file is not readable by the Apache. Try the following command:

chmod a+r /opt/lampp/htdocs/abc_2.6.php

Now reload the page and the error should disappear.

Greetings
Oswald

[Druid Healer]

Thanks a lot! I didn't realise it wasnt working because it was from a zip file with no permissions! Is there anyway to change the permissions of a lot of files at once?

[Oswald]

Try

chmod -R a+rX /opt/lampp/htdocs

Changes the permission of all files in htdocs and every sub directory.

In most cases this should give the best results. (Upper case R and X are important!)

Greetings
Oswald

[Druid Healer]

It worked ! Thnx!