Hi, Wolf: Like I guessed, I am still defined as the root user. [root@localhost html]# php test.php root root/var/www/html /var/www/html This is the output I have got from using your script. I have made a following quick change: [root@localhost var]# chown -R root:root . Not surprisingly, I am still not able to make a new directory using PHP with the HTTP. Could there be anything else I missed? Alice ====================================================== Alice Wei MIS 2009 School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________________ From: Wolf [lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:37 PM To: Wei, Alice J. Cc: Robert Cummings; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: mkdir permission errors ---- "Wei wrote: > Hi, Rob: > > I forgot to mention that I have been using yum install. > I have reinstalled the entire thing, put back all the packages, and then I went to /var and did a chmod -R 777 var, and then did a > > [root@localhost var]# chown -R apache:apache . > > Interestingly, I do not see anything different, and I still get this error that says my permission is denied. Here is my > > Obviously, my last one has already changed the owner to apache already.Nevertheless, I am still denied even when I am now logged in as root. Is this anything with firewalls? > > Thanks for your help. Alice, $whoami=system('whoami'); echo $whoami; $pwd=system('pwd'); echo $pwd; That should tell you what ID you are and the path you are in. Make sure that the path you are in has the correct permissions. Wolf -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php