Re: file uploads problem

What I don't understand is how can your webserver create a file and then not to have permission to read it. What is your setup? Jaski wrote:

No Edwin .. I can't do any thing to that file .. not even from my ftp client .. can't download can't change permissions .. The server is managed by rackspace .. I doubt they would do some thing like running apache as root which I "hear" is a v foolish thing to do (frankly I don't know how to figure it out myself ..if that is the case .. phpinfo() did not say any thing on that.) A brief restatement of problem File uploaded via HTTP POST to /tmp OK After this I tried the following three things and none worked. a) fopen("/tmp/temp_file_name","rb") FAILED (Operation not permitted) b) copy($tempfile, "/place/to/put/uploaded/file") FAILED c) move_uploaded_file($userfile, "/place/to/put/uploaded/file") DID COPY BUT file had -rw-------- permissions, and could not open this file either... so back to square 1 The directory in "/place/to/put/uploaded/file is mode 777 . Still fighting it out. Regards Jaski On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 @ Edwin wrote :

Just a comment... On Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:39 PM Jaski wrote: <snip>

I tried to copy this file using move_uploaded_file($userfile, "/place/to/put/uploaded/file"); and here a strange thing happened. The file was successfully copied BUT it had permissions like -rw------ which I interpret as only accessible to root. I tried copy() function instead and it failed.

...having that "permission" doesn't necessarily mean that it's only accessible to root--unless of course you're running Apache as root, which I doubt you'd do. Anyway, if the file was successfully copied why not just try to open it there? - E