Re: Permission Denied

u might have something on the ownership issue. i ran into the same thing... play with php's "chown" command. look it up php.net may help, i was having a similar issue a few months back. Joel "John Taylor-Johnston" <taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote in message news:3E588710.D5013F8C@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca... > Stephen, > > It seems like I wen tdown that road once? > I'm wondering/remembering two things to check? > > First what are the permissions of the directory your are working in? Go up one level and see what the CHMOD was on that? > > Second, it might be immaterial and I'm not sure how to do it on a command line, but who is the owner of the files you are trying to delete? Seriously! Maybe your script does not have the permission to delete them? With CuteFTP, I can read who the owner of a file is. I know this was an issue for me once, but I don't remember why. > > Craton wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm having a few problems with deleting items. When I do the unlink() > > function, it gives me a permission denied error. For example..here's the > > code: > > > > unlink($this->currentfolder().'/packs/'.$title.'/'.$intname); > > > > Here's the error returned: > > > > Warning: unlink() failed (Permission denied) in > > /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/piw.melchior.us/httpdocs/phpiw/classes/class. > > delete.php on line 45 > > > > The problem with all this is, I dynamically create the directories and files > > and dynamically CHMOD them all to 777 with no problems. I don't see why I'm getting all this! Please help ASAP! Thanks in advance! > > -- > John Taylor-Johnston > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > "If it's not open-source, it's Murphy's Law." > > Université de Sherbrooke: > http://compcanlit.ca/ >