Can you write files without cgiwrap?

Hi,

Probably a naive question to most of you, but we have been happily using 
PHP to write and edit files on shared web servers with a cgi-wrapper. Now 
we are working on a dedicated server and we cannot write to files on the 
server using PHP. I understand there is some security risk in allowing this 
to happen and I honestly do not fully understand the whole issue, but it is 
possible, can anybody help me please to understand how this can be done safely.

It is a recently configured Apache web server with PHP 4 installed.

Thanks in Advance.
Cheers
Kevin Jackson

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