Server upgrade: Will cgi/php scripts stop working?

[HoHum]

Hi

After complaining my hosts have offered to move our site to a new faster server. Good.

However, the php security has increased and I am wondering whether some of the scripts we use will stop working.

Our site is updated every night in a 'hybrid' fashion. We number crunch and pull data out of mysql databases using php and create static html files. This works fine for us.

we overcame the 'nobody' file permission problem by using a cgi script to execute the php file (nothing else we tried had enough permission). I didn't write it so I don't fully understand why that works but it does!

it runs something like

os.system( "php /create_pages.php > /out.txt" )

the create_pages.php script can then do whatever it likes to the files.

The new server stats (snippet) are as follows

"PHP5 & 4 with suphp mode
MySQL 5

server setup with max security so

Max file permessions : 644
Max dir permissions : 755
No PHP directives are allowed in .htaccess anymore
Won't allow [$IPADDRESS...] invocations anymore
Won't allow nobody file ownership"

Is this enough information to determine whether it will stop the file creation scripts from working?

Can anyone offer any advice?

[henry0]

I do not really understand, are you asking a question
without even testing what the output of your test could be?
anyway, you should try to use fopen [us2.php.net]
if the file exists then it could be open, read, written.
if the file does not exist then php will try to create it.
Using:
if(!fopen( etc...
you will have the answer

[HoHum]

the point you are missing, I think, is that we haven't moved to the new server yet.

before accepting the server upgrade I wanted an idea of whether the cgi/php scripts would stop working i.e. no longer be able to create files.

[henry0]

OK got it :)

When a file is created, 644, means the owner can read and write the file, but all others can only read the file