Cliff Nieuwenhuis wrote: [snip] > The web application needs to read and create files in the projects folder, but > PHP doesn't recognize the projects folder as folder! I suspect a > permissions problem of some sort, but I can't figure out where. [snip] Aziz Saleh wrote: > You guessed right. PHP usually runs under a user with less permissions (www, user, etc..). You are probably > logged in as a user with permissions to access that mounted drive while PHP isn't. Both fixes are ugly, but > what I would recommend is giving permission to those files as opposed to giving PHP user more power. Thanks for the reply. I thought that PHP runs under HTTPD as user 'apache'. I know that the Apache webserver runs as user 'apache' on my system -- does PHP run as a different user? Assuming that it does not, wouldn't my successful test of traversing, reading, and writing files under the 'projects' folder by doing 'su - apache -s/bin/bash' mean that the permissions are OK? I guess not, but I can't see why not. -- Cliff Nieuwenhuis
