sufficient permissions?

hwttdz

So I'm trying to move some of my scripts onto a remote server and something that worked great locally is now giving me trouble. The output I'm getting looks like

Warning: move_uploaded_file(test.png): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/www/borderb.php on line 43

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpgbKX4k' to 'test.png' in /home/user/www/borderb.php on line 43
file not moved

So this is bad. I searched for permissions on the php site and came up with something called umask() but I have no idea what a mask is or anything about that. Where are some places to start if I want to debug this problem. Thanks.

If you want to take a look at the output I believe it's at
http://hwttdz.glwb.info/borderb.php
you have to give it a png file where it asks.

There's a png file available here http://hwttdz.glwb.info/img/temp1.png .

	$destfile="test.png";
	if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name'],$destfile))
	{
		eline("file moved");
	}
	else
	{
		eline("file not moved");
	}

halojoy

checkout what stuff you should use,
in function http://php.net/move_uploaded_file

Look in Comments examples, how those users has done code.
And do the same!

Of course directory where you put your file should have Write permission:
for example: 777

hwttdz

How can I view the permissions of a directory? Something like fileperms for a directory? I can't seem to connect to my webspace right now through ftp, so I cannot use that to find permissions settings.

The rest of the information did really not relate, I had already looked at that page. Possibly the ftp connection but I already have the file on the server and just need to move it and rename it. Also there was no code relating to my problem. I feel somewhat insulted that you would assume that I did not look for the solution to my problem myself.

halojoy

If you have your own linux system
you can change permission while using file explorer in harddrive
I have my apache running from my own computer which is in linux,
so I can easily change permissions to any folder or file

php has chmod() function http://php.net/chmod

chmod ( string filename, int mode )

Attempts to change the mode of the file specified by filename to that given in mode .

It will work with linux/apache systems
but I think in windows server you have to do in another way

Roger_Ramjet

umask is used to modify the file permissions that would otherwise be granted by default when a file is created. Not what you are after here since it seems to only be used to reduce the permissions not increase them - though I may be wrong on that.

To view the current settings try using fileperms()
Read through the manual page as it has full code example for you to use.
You should also review the file system functions is_wrirable as this can be used to determine if you can rename the file.

My guess is that your script is executing under the default user 'nobody' and therefore has very limited permissions anyway, so the actual file permissions are ignored and your script can just 'read' - ie. what you want to happen to visitors to your website, be no good if they could rename or rewrite your files would it.