Hello All!

I am trying to create a file to be written-to within a folder at the same tree-level as PUBLIC_HTML (hopefully this would prevent the file being accessed via a web browser via http) .

For example, an abbreviated list of the typical hosting account directory tree looks like:

/
/public_html
/www
/blah
/blah
/blah

Your website goes inside of /public_html, etc.

What I want is to create and write to a file via a PHP script. The file will be located in this folder: /000_output

so my "new" directory tree looks like:

/public_html
/www
/000_output
/blah
/blah
/blah

I set the folder permissions for 000_output to 755.

I have selected my directory path string to be equal to: /home/porta28/000_output

The problem is- the script executes without having a path not found type of error, but DOES NOT write the output file, "feedback.txt". 


Note that if I set my folder to be

"/myweb/myclient/000_output"

The site assumes that I am referring to a folder within my website, as is expected, the script works fine, and writes to "feedback.txt" without a problem. 

Can anyone tell me how I can write to a folder on the same level as public_html?? 

Thanks in advance!

-josephlevin

Actually, I did do that (but that didn't work either).
In any event Lunarpages Tech Support said to me that only 755 was acceptable when write access was desired.