I had copied some project files from a friends Mac to my Windows machine..
Due to some strange reason those floders and files have light green text and when i try to access those files using my localhost it shows following error::::


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

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'C:/wamp/www/marinesjob/index.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in Unknown on line 0

Now i am new to php development and i am not sure why the error is occuring..

Other projects done on my machine work fine
I have also tried to reset the file permissions but that have not worked>
Plz help if u can....

I don't think this is file permission error. It is looking like different include path. If your include path (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear) is defined then script try to call include file then maybe you get this error. Try to put some files in pear folder and see what happened.

Originally Posted by shivaji

I don't think this is file permission error.....Try to put some files in pear folder and see what happened.

That's really funny

Its a file permissions error. If the file was not found the error would include. "No such file or directory".

You can reset the folder/file permissions in Windows. Just Google "reset folder and file permissions on windows" for your particular version of Windows.

You can open your index.php in notepad, then re-save it. This also should remove the error, but you will have problems with other files.

Its a file permissions error. If the file was not found the error would include. "No such file or directory".

Really??? I never get this error.

Originally Posted by shivaji

Really??? I never get this error.

Create a file dix.php and put the following code in it:

<?php
      require('blogs.php');
?>

Then browse to your file on your web server. Tell me what you see

This is what I see:

Warning:  require(blogs.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\dix.php on line 2

Fatal error:  require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'blogs.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\wamp\www\dix.php on line 2

Perhaps you will understand "Permission denied"...?

Did you will get this error if you create and put blogs.php in same directory where is dix.php???

Originally Posted by shivaji

Did you will get this error if you create and put blogs.php in same directory where is dix.php???

The point is to show YOU the error that PHP throws when a require file is missing.

In that case the problem is not in file permissions. Ok, maybe PHP generate file permission error because cannot find and give permission for missing file, but how is this in any correlation with CHMOD or Win file permission what you are writing in your first post? He just need to find which and where to insert a missing file.

Originally Posted by shivaji

He just need to find which and where to insert a missing file.

Ur too funny!!

There is no file missing. PHP cannot open the file because it has restrictions placed on it by the MAC operating system. Our friend needs to reset permissions on the files.

Yes, you can move over files from a MAC machine to Windows and find you have permission problems, try it some time

I faced the same problem sometime back and so far not been able to get the right solution!