php-cgi causes permission denied on output file despite appropriate permissions

Question

I am trying to run a php script using the php-cgi. The command is:

sudo -Hu apache /usr/bin/php-cgi -f /var/www/html/load.php >> /var/www/html/load.log

The output is:

-bash: /var/www/html/load.log: Permission denied

when I run ls -la /var/www/html I get:

...
-rwxr--r--  1 apache apache    1 Nov  2 14:00 load.log

apache has rwx permission on that file! why the permission denied?

Answer 1

I was able to get it working when I add w permissions on the file such as:

`sudo chmod o+w /var/www/html/load.log`

For whatever reason the writing was not being done on behalf of apache.