Re: Permission denied when executing 'copy' command in a PHP script
| From: | Thiago H. Pojda | Date: | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:37:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Permission denied when executing 'copy' command in a PHP script | ||
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On 9/15/08, Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:
>
> In a PHP file upload script which looks like:
>
> $htmlplace="aplace";
> if ($_FILES['HtmlFile']['name'] != "")
> {
>
> $filenamex = basename($_FILES['HtmlFile']['name']);
>
> copy($_FILES['HtmlFile']['tmp_name'],$htmlplace."/".$filenamex);
> }
>
> I am getting the error message:
>
> <br />
> <b>Warning</b>: copy(aplace/ahtml.html) [<a
> href='function.copy'>function.copy</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission
> denied in <b>/home/directory/anotherdirectory/makecopy2.php</b> on line
> <b>6</b><br />
>
> This was working perfectly before so I am at a loss as to why it is now
> failing. Does anybody have any idea what could be happening and what the
> Permission denied refers to and means ? Thanks !
Apache - or your http process - process (default www-data in *nix) has to
have access to the file/dir in order to copy it.
Did you check file/dir permissions? Has anything changed? Your sysadmin
could have changed the user running apache or dir perms.
Regards,
--
Thiago Henrique Pojda