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
