[RESOLVED] chmod() question.

[shank]

Why does this not work?

chmod("../ehb_$modname/", 0755);

Does this not work with relative paths, or what?

Help?

Steve

[thorpe]

Remove the trailing /

[shank]

didn't work.

by the way, I should have mention earlier that ehb_$modname is a directory not a file, and I had to create it using ftp_mkdir.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[thorpe]

Does your web server process have permission to change this file?

[shank]

probably not since I created the folder with ftp_mkdir.

The folders I made with mkdir() apparrently didn't belong to me. :queasy:

I also tried to do this

function chmod_11oo10($path, $mod)
{
   include("include/ftpinfo.inc.php");
   // set up basic connection
   $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

   // login with username and password
   $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $user, $pass);

   // try to chmod $path directory
   if (ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD '.$mod.' '.$ftp_root.$path) !== false) {
       $success=TRUE;
   }
   else {
       $success=FALSE;
   }

   // close the connection
   ftp_close($conn_id);
   return $success;
}
chmod_11oo10(/modules/ehb_$modname, 0755)

but that didn't seem to work either.

This is how I created the directory ehb_$modname:

function FtpMkdir($path, $newDir) {

   include("include/ftpinfo.inc.php");
      $connection = ftp_connect($server); // connection
      $result = ftp_login($connection, $user, $pass);

   // check if connection was made
     if ((!$connection) || (!$result)) {
       return false;
       exit();
       } else {
         ftp_chdir($connection, $path); // go to destination dir
       if(ftp_mkdir($connection, $newDir)) { // create directory
       ftp_site($connection, "CHMOD 777 $path/$newDir") or die("FTP SITE CMD failed.");
           return $newDir;
       } else {
           return false;
       }

   ftp_close($connection); // close connection
   }

}
FtpMkdir("/modules","ehb_$modname");

[shank]

ok. I fixed one thing I had messed up and it does change the chmod, but this code:

function chmod_11oo10($path, $mod)
{
   include("include/ftpinfo.inc.php");
   // set up basic connection
   $conn_id = ftp_connect($server);

   // login with username and password
   $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $user, $pass);

   // try to chmod $path directory
   if (ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD '.$mod.' '.$ftp_root.$path) !== false) {
       $success=TRUE;
   }
   else {
       $success=FALSE;
   }

   // close the connection
   ftp_close($conn_id);
   return $success;
}
chmod_11oo10("/modules/ehb_$modname/", 0755);

changes it to 704 instead of 755.

Any ideas?

[bradgrafelman]

What if you try this instead:

chmod_11oo10("/modules/ehb_$modname/", 755);

Alternatively, you could try:

chmod_11oo10("/modules/ehb_$modname/", 'u=rwx,go=rx');

[shank]

bradgrafelman wrote:

What if you try this instead:

chmod_11oo10("/modules/ehb_$modname/", 755);

This did it. Thanks a million.

Steve

[bradgrafelman]

No problem. Don't forget to mark the thread resolved!