mkdir permission errors

Hi, Guys: I have a very strange incident here that may seem very stupid. Since the power went out last night, I have restarted my server. However, now the permission is never working right. I have set the permission of my htdocs folder iof my Apache server to 0755, and then started executing the following. $id=$_REQUEST['id']; $filename = "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test"; if (file_exists($filename)) { mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory</p>"); chmod("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id", 0777); mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id/contours", 0755) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory</p>"); chmod ("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id/contours",0777); mkdir ("/usr/local/apache/htdocs//$id/beamdata", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory</p>"); mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs//$id/schemadata", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory</p>"); mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/$id/plandata", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory</p>"); } else { mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create directory http://192.168.10.63/TPU</p>"); } However, the error always bumped me with Cannot create directory http://192..168.10.63/test. I went into my error logs, and it continuously give me this: [Mon Jul 14 14:51:07 2008] [error] [client 192.168.10.63] PHP Warning: mkdir() [<a href='function.mkdir'>function.mkdir</a>]: Permission denied in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/file_linux.php on line 23 Can anyone please give me a hint on what could be wrong here? I have set my parent directory to 0755 already. Thanks in advance. ====================================================== Alice Wei MIS 2009 School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington ajwei@indiana.edu