[RESOLVED] Correct permissions for uploading files

rtcary

I am trying to implement PHP upload functionality for an application. When I attempt an upload in my test environment, I get the following error:

An error has occurred: receiving directory insufficient permission... The upload form is reloading

The destination file being moved by move_uploaded_file is

/home/httpd//test/upload/uploads/1278898550-_DSC1159.jpg

The initial file name is suppose to be

/tmp/phpR1lmmc

I am not sure what to set for Owner and Group for the "uploads" directory nor the permissions (it is now set to 775).

Many thanks for some guidance for this matter...

Todd

NogDog

It is likely you will need 777 permission if this is being executed as a web application, as the PHP script is typically run by the web server user account (as opposed to your personal login account), so you may need to give "world" write permission on the directory.

sneakyimp

A web server runs as a certain user on *nix machines. On debian linux, this is usually www-data. On CentOS (and possibly red hat) it's apache. On my mac (where I run MAMP) it is sneakyimp. On still other machines it's nobody.

Whatever the user/group that apache is running as, it will need WRITE access to the directory where you are trying to copy files. If you are owner or group of the directory in question, you can run something like this on the command line to give EVERYONE write access to this dir:

chmod 777 /home/httpd//test/upload/uploads

That means that any user on your entire machine (possibly including people you won't know) has permission to write this folder.

If you want a more limited set of permissions on the folder, you may need to change its user or group so that apache (or www-data or whoever) has permission but not everyone:

chown sneakyimp:www-data /home/httpd//test/upload/uploads
chmod 775 /home/httpd//test/upload/uploads

rtcary

Thank you for the reply! I set the Group to Apache using 775 for the permissions. Now it works.

With appreciation...
Todd

sneakyimp

Glad to help. BTW, I hope you didn't make owner=sneakyimp. Note that the owner should probably be the FTP user that you use to upload files to your web root -- if this user lacks permission, you may not be able to upload or download files.

bradgrafelman

Or you could just use "chgrp" instead to only change the group. :p

rtcary

Thanks for checking. Nope, I am the owner.

Todd