uploading images/permissions problems, i think

[pahikua]

I'm trying to upload images to the server via a form and move_uploaded_file. I've done this before but never had these errors. When I upload I get error messages that say 'Unable to create 'images/photo_name.jpg': permission denied' and 'Unable to move'. I've had this problem before and fixed it with chmod but when I do that I get 'chmod failed: opration not permitted in 'path to script that uploads photo'.

It seems to me that the upload image script doesn't have permission to execute image uploads or to change file permissions. Could it be a php configuration setting or maybe setting the permissions on this file to execute? I'm not really sure.

Any help narrowing this down is appreciated.

[McIheal]

why don't you change the permissions of the directory by ftp or ssh permanently?

[pahikua]

The hosting company has shut ssh down. I'm in the process of trying to get them to set it up for me. I'll see what I can do with ftp.

[yonderboy]

ftp and ssh same thing in this case just type (chmod 777 dir)

[tnt]

try this to change the chmod for the needet file or directory

<?
$chmod = "0777";

$file = "whatEverFile";

eval("chmod(\"". $file ."\", ". $chmod .");");

echo "perm:: ". fileperms($file);
?>

[Rahmon]

I am not sure if the script can evaluate the chmod command. Does the script have the permission to change file modes?

Anyway, I'll advise you permanently solve the problem using ftp.