r On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Cliff Nieuwenhuis < c.nieuwenhuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > You are correct, when I said PHP I meant through the server. Try using runuser command instead. If you have exec enabled, try running an ls command as a user with higher permissions and see if that works.
