[kh99]

Well, I'm not really an admin person, but if the file doesn't belong to the same owner or group as the user the web server runs as, then you'd have to make it writable to everyone. I know on our server (not the one for vbullein.org but the one I'm licensed under) they've got it set up so that any files in the web server's directory are set to read only. So when I want to log stuff to a file like you're doing, I create a directory under my home directory and set it to 0x777 (which is still a little dangerous, I guess, but at least it's not available through the web server).

Anyway, I know it's annoying. I had trouble getting it to work before posting it, and when you don't have any error messages it's hard to know why it's failing. If you decide to abandon this and go a different route I'd understand.