Changing Owner of a Directory?

Spud_Nic

When I create a new directory manually, it has the owner of my username, but when I get PHP to create a new directory using mkdir() and setting permissions to 777, it has the owner of "apache".

This is causing a problem as when I try to copy files, or move files into a folder that has "apache" as the owner, it won't do it. It works fine when the owner is my username.

I've been having a go with chown() but with no luck. But I'm not sure if that works on directories, as well as files. I can't seem to find much information about changing owner status on directories, so if anyone can shed and light on this or help I would be very grateful!

I really need to be able to create a new folder in PHP but have the owner as my username, but not apache, which appears to be the default!

Cheers.

js_thind

chown rarely works on shared hosting accounts. Use ftp_mkdir instead.

bradgrafelman

Try using [man]umask/man and setting the umask to 0777. (Note that you have to call this function in your script before you create the directory.)

Taorluath

I've been having the same problem. Whenever a PHP script makes a file, it says the owner is "www-data". And I can't edit that file with my regular user, because permissions to everyone else is read only. I could always go through using root and change all the permissions, but I want a way to have PHP automatically do it.
chown(), chmod(), and chgrp() all apparently need root permissions.
So how do I give PHP the permissions required to use these functions??