how to give permissions to files?

soniared2002

Morning,

i was told to : "give the folder you want to delete permissions of 777 for your webserver"
- HOW DO I DO THAT?

Thanx,
Sofia

Xoid

well... your gonna have to use a command such as chmod

use a program like WS-FTP and you can chmod a file to 777 very easily.

soniared2002

I am still getting this following error :
Warning: copy(../signPanel_files/images): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\sitephp\special_files\functions.inc.php on line 351

My code is :

chmod ("images/$fichier", 0777);

copy ("images/$fichier","../signPanel_files/images");

I tried also with 0755, wasn't working either.
Any ideas ?
Thanx 🙂

soniared2002

OH, i am using windows xp , apache, mysql, php.

bad76

Hi,
You can't, by default, chmod a file from php. There are a lot of permission problem.

In window don't exist chmod. You have to setup this from apache config.

I don't know this too well, but i use on localhost this:

<Directory "e:/testphp">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Write it in httpd.conf of apache. This tell that all is allow in "e:/testphp" directory...

soniared2002

I am not using any program to upload my web site..it is just in building process..i am working offline

Xoid

hmmm... not too sure to be honest, but have you tried looking in your PHP.ini? at 'fopen wrappers'?

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Fopen wrappers ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow the treatment of URLs (like [url]http://[/url] or [url]ftp://[/url]) as files.
allow_url_fopen=On

not sure if that could be a factor!

soniared2002

Hi,
I am not usign any ftp, http..i am just trying to move one file to another directory..taht is all.

bad76

Sorry,
but i'm writing when you post the system, and i'm writing too when you post this other 🙂

Repost the prew message:

In window don't exist chmod. You have to setup this from apache config.

I don't know this too well, but i use on localhost this:

<Directory "e:/testphp">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Write it in httpd.conf of apache. This tell that all is allow in "e:/testphp" directory...

see you

soniared2002

I have changed it almost as you said:
<Directory C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
this gives me the following erroe when i restart appache :
multiple <directory> not <yet> supported.

NOW WHAT?!!!
Thanx 🙂

bad76

Search in your config.
Probably you have already a
<Directory C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs>
....
</Directory>
section. Modify it.

see you

soniared2002

I deleted the earlier error, apache restarts now..
Still doesnt' let me to access the file..any ideas? thanx..any documentation i could read about so?
Thanx

stc7outlaw

this is how i do it:

mkdir("$dir/", 0755);
chmod("$dir/", 0777);

You have to make the dir as 0755 then you can chmod it.

Hope that answered you question.

bad76

I've readed
on this other thread

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10245177

you have to move the file.
Then you have to set permission for source directory (to delete file) and for destination directory (to write files).

insert a
<Directory C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs>
...
</Directory>
for target too.

P.s: as i said i use this on my localhost. I'm sure that in a public server this configuration isn't secure...
You can look in Apache documentation for more info on this argument.

soniared2002

Hi All,
My problem is still not solved.
To remind: Using Windows XP as the server, adn using PHP.
ALL i am trying to do is to move a file from one directory to another.
I tried to create the directories using mkdir...and than to chmod for both sourch and destination -> sitll permission denied.
I tried to use move_upload..but since the file isn't uploaded using http, can't be done..what to do???
I tried to change the httpd.conf -> source.....allow all..doesn't work.
I was looking for destination configuration like someone suggested, but i couldnt' find any properties for that in httpd.conf file.
Nothing works.
ANY IDEAS?
PLEASE Help!
thanx.
Sofia

benkillin

jesus christ! YOU DONT AND CANT CHMOD FILES ON WINDOWS SERVERS! chmod is a command for unix, not windows.

anyway, I tried it, I have xp and php 4.3.2 I think the latest version is... and it works fine... then again, I use xitami.

and you are doing it like this, right?

$file1 = "test1.dat";
$file2 = "test2.dat";
$dir = "dir";
mkdir($dir, "0777");
copy($file1, $dir."/".$file2);