Re: How to delete non-empty directory??

> Believe me. I tried that. If the directory is empty it > deletes but if the directory is not empty it does not > delete anything. I even tried to chdir to the > directory to delete the files first then go one level > up to delete the directory. It did not work either. > Check the code below: > > $path = "/path/to/thedir/to/delete/"; > > $dir_name = "bbb"; > > $directory = "$path/$dir_name"; > > chdir($directory); > > $dir = opendir("."); > while($file = readdir($dir)){ > unlink($file); > } > > chdir(".."); > > system("rm -rf $directory"); > > what is going on. Why can't I delete NON-empty > directory? Any idea? This is a permissions problem. It will be simplier to re-write the program as: <?php system("rm -rf $path/$dir_name"); ?> When you run the program check the /usr/local/apache/log/error_log (or equiv) for any output/error from running the "rm" command. The user who runs that web server is probably different to the user who owns the filesystem directories. If you want to delete the directory then the webserver user must have write permission on the directory above the one you want to delete. hope that makes sense, David. the reason why the