Re: mkdir()

May be your httpd is running under nobody.nobody but the owner of the htdocs dir, or wherever are running your php scripts is owned by someone else. Regards, Andrey Hristov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Starkmann" <kiko@nfq.de> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: [PHP] mkdir() > Hi there! > > I got the following problem: > > I want to "mirror" a complete directory tree. Now I traverse > the original tree, do changes to some of the files and want to > write the resulting files to a parallel directory. > > Lets say $INPUT_PATH is the source path and $OUTPUT_PATH is > where I want to put the copies. > $file is the path o the current file. > > Now I tried to do the following: > > file://...snip... > > $outfileName = ereg_replace($INPUT_PATH, $OUTPUT_PATH, $file); > $OUTFILE = fopen($outfileName, "w") || die ("Oooops, couldn't open $file); > > // ... more blahblah... > > fclose($OUTFILE); > > But now I got an error: > > Warning: fopen("path/directory/template.html","w") - No such file or > directory in filename.php on line 231 > > Okay, I hoped PHP would create the directory, too, along with creating > the file Iwant to write to when it doesn't exist. > > When I try to create the directory "manually" using > > mkdir("path/directory", 0777) || die ("Yet another ugly death..."); > > I get yet another ugly error: > > Warning: MkDir failed (No such file or directory) in filename.php on line 29 > > Why is this? Of course there is no such file or directory... If there was, I > wouldn't have to create one ;) > > Any ideas? Hints? > > Every tidy bit of wisom is appreciated... > > Cheers, > > Kiko > > ----- > It's not a bug, it's a feature. > christoph starkmann > mailto:kiko@nfq.de > http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~kiko > ICQ: 100601600 > ----- > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >