RE: [PHP] probelm : delete files using PHP
| From: | Simon Ritchie | Date: | Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:51:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] probelm : delete files using PHP | ||
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> I am using PHP 4.1.1, Postgresql 7.2 and Perl 5.6.0 on Linux.
>
> I want to delete files in a directory,which were created 15 days back.
>
> I can not do it, with PHP filesystem and directory functions, as
> PHP runs as
> "nobody" user.
To delete a file the user running the web server needs to be able to write
to the directory containing the file. Either the directory should be owned
by the user nobody and writable by its owner, or in the group nobody and
writable by group, or (the most dangerous choice) writable by any user. To
change the ownership, you need to be able to log in as the user root.
Simon
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