Specifying owner for a new file

Anon

Hi,
I'm using PHP to create text files, and I use this code:

((((

$fp = fopen("$filename".".rpm","w");
$string = "http://domain.com/$filename.rm";
fwrite($fp, $string, strlen($string));
}

)))

The Php creates a file with "nobody" info for the owner and the group and it's not writable

My question is: how can I make a file that will have a different owner and group and it's permission alow to write or read from it.

Thanks

mithril

Unless you're then trying to modify the file with your normal shell user, you shouldn't have any problems. "nobody" is the account Apache runs under, hence the reason why that account owns the file it just created. Just make sure the nobody account has write permissions in the folder(s) in question.

You can also change file ownership with the chown() function. You'll need to call it after Apache has created the file as nobody.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php

-geoff

Anon

Thanks for your help, I guess my problem was the write permission in the other folder, and it worked fine.

Now I need to do something simillar, I have a file that is uploaded to the server through an account that is owned by certain user, let's say: user1

I want to move this file from certain folder to another folder, however as you mentioned that the permissions won't allow me to do that.

Is there is a way to solve this problem? I don't want to deal with shell account everytime, cause this process (of creating the file and moving the 2 files to the other folder happens 10 times at least daily)

Thanks for your help.

Anon

Please ignore my question, I've tried moving the file and it worked even that the owner and the group are: admin

Thanks a lot for your help.