Uploading Files

cap97

I currently have a form allowing select users the ability to upload files into a directory on my host's server. I do it with the following code:


$uploaddir = '/home/user/public/my/dir/IMAGES/';

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'],$uploaddir . $_FILES['userfile']['name']))

However, when done this way the group and the owner are "nobody" instead of my username. Any way I can specify what the group and owner should be when uploading? Also what the file's permission setting should be?

rIkLuNd

how do you mean? maybe you can explain it better?

cap97

Originally posted by rIkLuNd
how do you mean? maybe you can explain it better?

I can try. What part in particular are you confused about? When I FTP an image onto my host's server, the group and owner are my username. When a file is uploaded via the form I've provided, the group and owner of the file is "nobody", instead of my username. I'm not sure how else to expain it.

rIkLuNd

now I understand, but I don't know how to fix it... Sorry!

NSH

Are you running this webserver? or is it being hosted.

You can use the chown() command, but I believe it the user has to be a superuser to run it.

I had the same prob with my hosting space...
FTP user is different than the apache user.

Basically you have to change what user apache runs as....

You could use php ftp commands and hard code the username/pwd for your ftp..........

If you are paying for webspace, it's unlikely you will be able to solve this problem..