Wei, Alice J. wrote:
From: Peter Ford [pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:28 AM
To: Wei, Alice J.
Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mkdir permission errors
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ford [mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:06 AM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mkdir permission errors
Wei, Alice J. 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
[root@localhost var]# ps awxu | grep -E 'apache|httpd'
root 31547 0.0 0.3 21268 6584 ? Ss 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31549 0.0 0.2 21400 5572 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31550 0.0 0.2 21400 4908 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31551 0.0 0.2 21400 4908 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31552 0.0 0.2 21400 4896 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31553 0.0 0.2 21268 4860 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31554 0.0 0.2 21268 4860 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31555 0.0 0.2 21268 4860 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 31556 0.0 0.2 21268 4860 ? S 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
root 31708 0.0 0.0 4120 728 pts/1 R+ 16:30 0:00 grep -E apache|httpd
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?
Hang on a minute: you're original message said the error was:
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Permission denied in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/file_linux.php on line 27
But you say you've re-installed, and done "chmod -R 777 var" and "chown -R
apache:apache ." in /var
A few things there:
When you are changing permissions and ownerships on such a large scale, you
should always use absolute paths to be sure you are doing the right thing - like
"chmod -R 777 /var" and "chown -R apache:apache /var"
Next, changing permission and ownership recursively on something like /var is
likely to wreck your system in weird and wonderful ways, and is pretty difficult
to undo - you might be looking at a total OS reinstall here (once you've solved
your Apache problems)
Finally, the error message refers to a file in /usr/local/apache/htdocs, but you
then are changing permissions in /var - where is your web root?! It looks like
your PHP code has the /usr/local/apache/htdocs path hard-coded, when your web
files are actually in /var/something...
I forgot to mention that I use Fedora on a Linux machine. I used yum install apache and yum install php to install my packages. Therefore, I don't have a /usr/local/apache/htdocs folder. The web root is now /var/www/html, which originally I do have /usr/local/apache/htdocs that I configured during previous installations. This is not there anymore after my reinstallations since yesterday.
Do I really have to reinstall the entire Fedora? I hate to say that my scripts worked fine BEFORE yesterday until the power went out and nothing went right after I have restarted the entire system.
Alice
You don't *have* to reinstall Fedora (yet) - that was just a warning that
changing ownership and permissions on /var might cause some problems later...
So the question is, does the error message say that it cannot change permissions on
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/file_linux.php
or
/var/www/html/file_linux.php
?
This portion is to answer Rob's question:
[root@localhost var]# ls -la
total 92
drwxrwxrwx 22 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-07-14 08:17 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:25 account
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 2008-07-14 16:07 cache
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-02-19 20:47 cvs
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:25 db
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:29 empty
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 games
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-05-01 22:45 gdm
drwxrwxrwx 35 root root 4096 2008-07-14 16:07 lib
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 local
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 2008-07-15 04:10 lock
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 2008-07-15 04:10 log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-24 08:24 mail -> spool/mail
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:26 named
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 nis
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 opt
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 preserve
drwxrwxrwx 27 root root 4096 2008-07-14 16:12 run
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:35 spool
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-07-14 16:10 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 2008-07-14 16:07 www
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2008-06-24 08:29 yp
And does your PHP script have the correct path?
This is the latest error I got:
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/html/file_linux.php on line 15
Cannot create directory
The original problem may just have been that the /usr/local file system was
mounted read-only after the power outage (perhaps due to some disk corruption
caused by the failure?).
I have thought about that, and have restarted Apache that time, but somehow that did not work. I am not sure if that had been the right procedures of what I took.
Since then you have reinstalled apache, but possibly
not in the place your PHP script expects it to be. That would be my first thing
to check...
It appears to me that when I opened up the page with phpinfo(), it does display the accurate information. But from what you said here, are there other things I must do to check if it is working as it is?
Thanks in advance.
======================================================
Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
________________________________________
I'm being a bit of an idiot, but I realised that the path in the error message
is NOT the path being created, but the path of the script.
Back to your first post - you posted some PHP which included something like:
mkdir("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id", 0777) or die ("<p>Cannot create
directory</p>");
The questions are these:
is your /var/www/html/file_linux.php script trying to create
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/$id ?
And does the directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test/ exist on your server?
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