Re: Permission denied when executing 'copy' command in a PHP script

Thiago H. Pojda wrote:

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.

Does the error message mean that access is denied in the 'from' file ( $_FILES['HtmlFile']['tmp_name'] ) or the 'to' location ( aplace/ahtml.html ) ?

Did you check file/dir permissions? Has anything changed? Your sysadmin could have changed the user running apache or dir perms.

What is the 'user running Apache' and how do I determine it ? The 'to' directory has a Linux permission of 755. The PHP script has a permission setting of 644.