I spent half a day trying to work out why I could not update my sqlite3 database from apache using the PHP PDO driver. I was getting NO error messages at all.

I could connect and select data, but not modify it.

It wasn't until I added the following line:

$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING);

after immediately opening the database, that I got a hint of what was happening.

filename: File3

dl_count: 100

( ! ) Warning: PDO::exec() [pdo.exec.html]: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database in /www/htdocs/test/dl-counter/sqlite-readwrite-test.php on line 76

Call Stack

#

Time

Memory

Function

Location

1  0.0086  330120  {main}( )  ../sqlite-readwrite-test.php:0

2  0.0273  331240  PDO->exec( )  ../sqlite-readwrite-test.php:76

Affected Rows: ''

filename: File3

dl_count: 100

The problem was with the file permissions. As root I could read and write the database from the sqlite3 command line monitor. But Apache was unable to write the database.

Changed the permissions to 755 wwwrun:wwrun and it all works OK!

Thanks again :)