PHP FastCGI on Windows Plesk permissions issue?

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The web hosting thread below was started by blueskimonkey on 2010-03-10 13:49:16:

Hi,

I have a friend who is with a hosting company who uses Windows Plesk, he is using PHP Fast CGI but it seems like PHP does not have modify rights to the domain folder for example when we create a simple PHP Script to create a text file on the server we get permission denied. However if we create a sub folder on the domain we are then able to create a test file within this directory.

i.e. domainname.com/httpdocs = access denied for php
domainname.com/httpdocs/testfolder = file is created fine.

My friend has contacted the hosting provider and they are saying it is not possible to give php fastcgi modify rights on the httpdocs folder, as a hosting provider myself I find this hard to believe and was wondering if this is a problem with Plesk or the hosting provider just not knowing how to configure their servers properly.

Thanks Aaron

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