directories and "open_basedir restriction in effect"

heruraha

I've got a simple script which creates two directories with the addition of a new item, one called /images/PersonName/ and another called /images/PersonName/thumbs/

When I create the directories with mkdir(), even if I specify a permission of 0777, it always creates both directories with permissions of 0755. The permissions can't be changed through FTP or chmod(), /thumbs/ can't be renamed or deleted, and nothing can be uploading through FTP or copied into these folders. Apparently I can only create dead, useless folders that can't be deleted using mkdir() on this server!

This seems to have something to do with "open_basedir restriction in effect"

I'm lost, this worked just fine on my test server, I've built systems like this before on a dozen different servers, and I've never seen this... please help!!!

paulnaj

Hi heruraha,

This is a permissions issue ... the problem is that if you create a folder with PHP then the 'owner' is 'nobody' and you can only manipulate it with PHP.

You say you've achieved this before though ... I'd be interested to see how you did it ... maybe we can adapt it to fit.

Paul 🙂

heruraha

This is a permissions issue ... the problem is that if you create a folder with PHP then the 'owner' is 'nobody' and you can only manipulate it with PHP.

Problem is, PHP can't seem to manipulate the folder either... when I try to delete or affect the directory with chmod, I get the "open_basedir restriction in effect" error.

I haven't built exactly this same system before except for on my test server, where it worked just fine.

I also don't understand why PHP can't seem to modify the CHMOD permissions of the folder. Even if I specify 0777 by calling

mkdir($dir, 0777)

or using chmod(), the permissions are unchangeable.

PHP manual states that 0777 is default, but it only creates folders with 0755 and then they're useless.

Is this a setting on the webserver that I need to bug our hosts about?

paulnaj

I don't know the complete ins-and outs but, chmod works fine on the command line, but not in a server script.

I've run up against this problem before and haven't found a solution to the 'owner=nobody' issue ... meaning that you can't access these folders with FTP.

One thing i haven't investigated is using the PHP FTP functions to manipulate folders/files ... might be worth a look into.

Paul.

heruraha

Yeah, I think I'm just going to script an FTP connection to create the directories instead of using mkdir(), since I can create folders through the FTP and manipulate them just fine... it seems a little overly involved way of creating directories, but I don't think the folks who are hosting this site are going to be of any assistance...

thanks for your help, though, and I'll be sure to post a solution to the problem if I do figure it out.