Re: Permission denied when executing 'copy' command in a PHPscript

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:47 -0400, Edward Diener wrote: > b wrote: > > Edward Diener 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); > >> } > > > > > > You should take a look at is_uploaded_file() and move_uploaded_file(). > > OK, thanks for pointing this out. > > > > >> 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 ! > >> > > > > It means that the web server has been denied permission by the OS. Check > > that the directory perms are properly set. > > The directory perms of the 'to' directory ? It is 755. > > > You might also want to use a > > full directory path (ie. from the root of the server) for the location > > the file should be saved to. > > I do not think I can know this from my PHP script. > Make sure that apache can write to that directory though. You may need to make apache the owner of the directory Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk