PHP Counter Problem...

[Manticore]

Hey, I'm hosting a site straight off my own pc and I'm going through the updated (free version) built into XP Pro (IIS) i installed PHP5.0.3 and all my .php pages work but im getting this error with my counter...

Warning: fopen(counter.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\hits.php on line 6

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\hits.php on line 7

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\hits.php on line 8
Hits: 1

its stuck on 1 hit (default im guessing)

yes CHMOD is 777 automaticaly and manually and for entire site and folder and the damn files... but i still get error this is the code im useing for my counter (www.darkgamer.com/index.php?page=scripts&id=1)

I did it exactly as it says in the tutorial and yes 0 isnt "0" or something stupid like that its just im clueless as to why I don't have permission to overwrite the file (I think thats the issue at hand but not exactly sure...)

If i need a mysql db for that it would be bothersome... and im pretty damn sure i dont need it for that its just a simple script to txt file code....

I'm planning on adding a mysql db later if anyone has some suggestions on how to do that I'd be thankful. And if so maybe a way to do a counter through mysql after i get it installed.

Thanks in advanced for any help on this problem ;D

[CrAzY_J]

idk, for some reason you dont have permission to access the file
Permission denied in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\hits.php

[CD]

At this point, I believe Crazy's right. That code should work perfectly.

[Manticore]

thats why im at a complete loss, perhaps its time i ditch IIS and just do apache or another service that supports php or just pay for one >.>

i see nothing wrong with the codeing and chmod is 777 so im totaly lost here meh :/