Making directories with PHP

[mitchell]

I'm trying to make a directory that will only be used by php to copy uploaded files into/delete those files. I was using....

mkdir ("/my/path/to/images", 0600) or die ("OH PANTS!!!!");

and I get the error....

Warning: MkDir failed (Permission denied)

Do I have to change some setting somewhere to give PHP the access to make directories? I'm assuming that if i can't make a directory I don't have access to write or delete from directories either. I don't want to create a directory manually and give it 777 mode access coz thats just silly!

Can anyone help?

Thanx
Mitchell

[kparker]

Your apache user ( most likely 'nobody') is going to need write permission on '/my/path/to' in order to do this. If you don't like giving the whole world access, then give it 0600 permission as root and then 'chown' ownership of the directory to 'nobody'.

[Anon]

change the directory u want to write to 777 and then do this

mkdir($directoryname, 0777);

cheers

kalyan