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Can somebody explain why the following works...

<?php
system("ls /home/hans/");
?>

and this not.....

<?php
system("cp /home/hans/data.txt /home/hans/data.tx2");
?>

For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I simply want to copy a file, so why won't php let me do this? Please help, because I'm getting a little frustrated. --Hans

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Member Avatar for ryan_vietnow

hmm..

Maybe check the file permission of the folder,maybe the permission is limited.try to change it to 777.

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do you run this script as owner of this home directory? or you can try chmod 777

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