Re: creating a directory in safemode

I just want everyone -- and the archives -- to know that I figured out my problem by using PHPs FTP functions. I can FTP into the server and do whatever I want -- regardless of safemode. -Dan Anderson On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 15:05, Daniel R. Anderson wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to create a PHP script that will create some arbitrary directory > and copy in some files. When I use the command mkdir('./foo',0777); I > get the following error: > > Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 534 is > not allowed to access /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/foo owned by > uid 48 in /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/web_page_interface.php > on line 28 > > So then I tried being clever and created a bash script that could be > executed from the within php with the command shell_exec('./script'); > And I got the following error: > > Warning: Cannot execute using backquotes in safe mode in > /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/web_page_interface.php on line 24 > > Both times my script died. Is there any way to do what I want to do and > get around Safe Mode? Or is there are least a way to create the dir as > mode 777? This isn't my server, so I can't edit the php.ini file to > turn it off. > > Thanks, > > Dan Anderson >