unlink --> permission denied

[pokerface]

Hello,

I trying to delete a file from my linux server (apache / php / mysql) through a webinterface.
but when I try to unlink, I get the message:
unlink() failed (permission denied) in....

when I go to the directory on my linux box, I see that the permissions of the file is set to -rwxr--r-- I know that I need -rwxrwxrwx permissions to delete the file, but how can I change those? (not with the chmod 777 -R command on my linux box, it have to be done through the webinterface).
and the chmod($file, 0777) in php is also permission dienied...

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance,

PF

[acidbox]

It sounds like your problem is that you are not the owner of the files you are trying to delete so that you can remove them without having to chmod 777 each file. you can change the ownership of all the files in the dir by typing chown -f username * where username is your login name. You can also use the -R for recurrsive directories like you would in chmod. I hope that helps some, if it is not what you are looking for, be a little more specific and maybe i can help.

[bobthedog]

This is just down to a permissions problem.

Someone - i.e. you, created/ftped the file to thebox under your username. PHP runs under apache, and so runs as the apache/nobody/whatever user which has no permissions on your file.

If PHP created the file in the first place you would not have these problems (although you would probably find that your user no longer has permission to view thie file, in which case just chmod the file from within PHP).

Your best bet is to either change the permissions manually to let PHP have access to the file (R & W), or to delete the file manually, and let PHP recreate the file with any permissions you require.