Re: Chmod question

Addressed to: webmaster@unni.com php-general@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from Web Master <webmaster@unni.com> Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:28:16 -0600 > > It is little off the topic, still, I know, some of you can answer my > question. How do we give a directory write permission, so that, we could > create a file on the directory on the fly from PHP script? > the directory either needs to be writable by world, (not a good idea) or writable by the user or group that apache runs as. Apache runs as nobody:nogroup so I create a directory 'upload' like this: mkdir upload chown nobody:nogroup upload chmod 770 upload Now the web server can read and write files in this directory, but most people logged into the system can't. You need to login as root to do this. If you are uploading files from the world into this directory, you probably do not want it inside the web directory of a site. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com