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[concept0020]

I am working on an application which creates clients. A client consists of an entry into a mySQL database, and the creation of a folder on my server.

The problem I am having is with the creation of the folder. I am currently using mkdir($path, 0777) and chmod($path, 0777) to create the folder and give permission to everyone to write to it. When I do this with the script that I have it creates the folder but will not let anything be written to it. Even if I through Windows Network Places I can not modify the folders permissions with out an error occurring. If I delete the folder then re-create it within that window, i.e. right click --> New --> folder then assign it the proper name every thing works fine...

Just wondering what is going on here if i need to change group or owner or different permissions?? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

This is my mkdir function

function mkdirs($dirName) //mkdir
{
  umask(011); 
  mkdir($dirName,0777);
  chmod($dirName,0777);

} 

[quadmyre]

Firstly I assume this is a UNIX server you're using - if not none of the UNIX permission functions will work - I would think they would give errors on W32 but haven't tried.

I'm afraid I don't have an immediate answer for you but I would think that if you can get either Telnet or SSH access to the server you can get a file listing showing all the group and user ownership and permissions; check man ls for syntax. I would start by comparing a directory your script has created with a directory you have created and hopefully the difference in the listing will make some sense.

HTH

[Dragnovich]

I had a similar problem, the problem is that you are creating the user as HTTPD (or any user name you assigned to your Web Http server user).

My solution to the problem was...

1) create a user that has all rights on the folder you want to share (where the folders will be located) preferebly DON'T USE a public folder, that's a dangerous backdoor!

2) Once created the user, open a FTP connection with PHP (see the FTP commands) like this:

$conn_id = ftp_connect($host);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name,$ftp_user_pass);

   ftp_chdir($conn_id,"/your/FTP/Path/To/TheFolders/");
   ftp_mkdir($conn_id, "/your/FTP/Path/To/TheFolders/Folders");
   ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0777 /your/FTP/Path/To/TheFolders/Folders');

if(!is_dir("/your/FTP/Path/To/TheFolders/Folders")) {
   ftp_rmdir($conn_id, "/your/FTP/Path/To/TheFolders/Folders");
   echo "Error: cant locate the directory";
   }
ftp_quit($conn_id);
 

After that you will had the directory created AS THE SITE user not as the HTTPD user. Then you can upload as many data you want

Check that the FTP path and the FULL path of the site are not the same! Ie:
/home/sites/site1/web/folders ( full )
/web/folders ( ftp )

I hope that help

[concept0020]

Thanks both of those did help however when I attempted to do it like that, ftp that is I got this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ftp_connect() in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/Folder/addUser.php on line 50

Does this mean that ftp was not enabled when php was set up...?

thanks