major file upload permission problems

itandme

hi!

I am doing some uploading fields as a part of my little publishíng system.

The file handeling the forms first creates a directory with mkdir() and then copies the files there. but my problem is that i dont have permission to do annything with the directory, even though i set the second mkdir() chmod attribute to full permissions for all. i cant view or delete the directorys.

so, somebody told me that directorys created in php, must be modified in php. So i used the function chmod() to really try again with the permissions. now i could acess the directorys, and delete it contentens. Then i tried to delete the folder by using rmdir(), but i got the error msg saying the folders are not empty (which they are, or atleast shown to be in ftp).

so i basically have a bunch of folders that i cant use, and i can even think about getting my publishing system to work.

help.

stolzyboy

have you tried chown to change ownership of the directories, not sure how to implement it, but it works via command line, so it may work with php too

itandme

Attempts to change the owner of the file filename to user user (specified by name or number). Only the superuser may change the owner of a file.

hmm... nope i get failed permission....:mad:

so what to do?

feldon23

The problem is, your PHP scripts runs with the user permissions of the WEB SERVER. The PHP script does not run "as you".

So if you want to allow file uploads, you're going to have to, using FTP or telnet/ssh, create an /uploads somewhere in your public_html or www directory and then CHMOD the whole directory to world-writable.

Then you will probably want to use .htaccess to turn off index viewing of that directory.

Then your PHP script will be able to write files and create directories within /uploads.

Someone please tell me that PHP6 will allow us to operate segments of PHP as a user...