Re: Re: mkdir in safe-mode

So, it appears that unless you set all your directories in your HTTP folders to 777 permissions, there's just no way to make a PHP script create or remove directories, is that right? If there is a way, could someone please share how it's done? I've been searching online for hours for a solution and can't find anything. Maybe because PHP can't do this unless you make the server a little less secure? Thanks. > From: phplist@newmediaone.com (Peter Janett) > Organization: New Media One Web Services, LLC > Reply-To: "Peter Janett" <phplist@newmediaone.com> > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:46:53 -0600 > To: "Joel Boonstra" <jboonstra@gospelcom.net> > Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: mkdir in safe-mode > > Here's my understanding based on experience, which is only that, so don't > take this a proven fact or anything. :) > > Lets assume Apache is running as user Apache. You are user websiteowner. > When you FTP into the server and create a directory, that directory is owned > by user websiteowner. User Apache can read that directory (or really files > in that directory), as user Apache has read only access to those files, but > it can't write those files, because Apache does not have write access. (I'm > skipping execute permissions for now). > > IN other words, PHP runs as user Apache, and you ask it to create a > directory in a folder owned by websiteowner. Since Apache doesn't have > write access, it can't create that directory (it lacks write access.) >