CHMOD Question/Issue

[kbc1]

Hi

I have this path stored in a variable $path:

$path = "../images/colour/class1/";

When i upload images to this path, it always fails unless the chmod is set to 0777. Its default is 0644.

I thought it would be a good idea to change the chmod to 0777 at the point of uploading so I have this code but it does not work:

$path = "../images/colour/class1/";
chmod("$path", 0777);

// upload the image here...

chmod("$path", 0644);

Can anyone suggest reasons why the folder permissions are not being changed?
Thanks in advance

[devinemke]

the user under which PHP is running does not have read/write permissions to that directory.

[kbc1]

Thanks for thie quick reply.

AmWhat would be the best way to rectify this?

[hagen00]

By either chmodding it permanently to 777 or making the directory owned by the user under which PHP (or rather Apache) is running. chown www-data. dirpath/ would be the command. I do the latter...