Re: mkdir problem

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Nick Allan wrote: > Hi all > I posted a message yesterday regarding mkdir giving a permission denied > error message when trying to create a directory in my web space. > I only received one message from someone who also had the problem. > I need to be able to mkdir using php rather than doing it manually through > ftp. > Has anyone got any ideas on why php isn't letting me create a directory. > I'm using the following > mkdir("/home/site/web/temp", 0700); > php returns a false and a permission denied error message. > the server is using php 4.0.1.pl2 as an apache module on a linux server. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone can give me to fix this problem. > > oh, I'm having the same problem on two other linux redhat based systems > also. Well, from what I can tell, PHP runs with the authority of (1) the web server (usually "nobody") or (2) the last authenicated user. So I wonder, "Who owns the /home/site/web directory?", I think that for the mkdir() function to work, you must force the web user to "logon" using as this user. Or set the permissions to 777 (yuck!)