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

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Thiago H. Pojda wrote:
On 9/15/08, Edward Diener <eldiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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