permission is ok but it's got to be inside the home directory of web server, which is /var/www by default for apache Nitin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bunmi Akinmboni" <bunmi.akinmboni@ayserve.net> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Help with file upload > Thanks Neil. My ultimate aim to update my database with the details of > the upload after it uploads successfully, but I need to solve this > problem first. > > The folder already has permission 777. > > Bunmi > > Neil Smth wrote: > > Bunmi, you need to understand Unix file permissions. > > > > Because you are running as the web server 'user / group' that user needs > > permission to write to the directory you are specifying. In this case > > you are trying to circumvent filesystem access controls by writing > > directly to the root directory of the filesystem ! > > > > So you need to adjust your path to for example > > /home/ayserve/public_html/fu/uploads/ > > > > *** Then*** You need to adjust the permission on this directory to allow > > write access to the web server. You can do this from most FTP clients > > (dreamweaver has a plugin to adjust the permissions of the directory). > > It needs to be mode 660 or 666 for testing, you can tighten up the > > permissions later. > > > > If you absolutely cant do this by FTP somehow, try using > > > > chmod("/home/ayserve/public_html/fu/uploads/",100666); > > .... execute your upload after extensive file type checks > > chmod("/home/ayserve/public_html/fu/uploads/",100755); > > > > To change it back again to a safe setting as soon as possible ! > > > > 666 corresponds to user-group-everybody, rwx and 660 to rw (no execute > > permission). Finally, 755 allows owner rwx and others rx permission - > > execute permission needs to be set again afterwards to allow the web > > server to traverse (read) the directory again. > > > > PS _ Can you remind me again how this is related to Databases in PHP, > > the topic of this list ;-) > > > > Cheers - Neil. > > > > At 06:25 16/10/2003 +0000, you wrote: > > > >> Message-ID: <20031016051103.20061.qmail@pb1.pair.com> > >> To: php-db@lists.php.net > >> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:09:07 +0100 > >> From: Bunmi Akinmboni <bunmi.akinmboni@ayserve.net> > >> MIME-Version: 1.0 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> Subject: Re: Help with file upload > >> > >> I used this code now: > >> > >> if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['ufile1']['tmp_name'])) { > >> move_uploaded_file($_FILES['ufile1']['tmp_name'],'./' . > >> $_FILES['ufile1']['name']); > >> > >> This is the reply I got: > >> > >> Warning: move_uploaded_file(./ayservenet.jpg): failed to open stream: > >> Permission denied in /home/ayserve/public_html/fu/fuprocess.php on line 6 > >> > >> Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpfJyDSw' to > >> './ayservenet.jpg' in /home/ayserve/public_html/fu/fuprocess.php on > >> line 6 > >> ayservenet.jpg DONE Array ( [ufile1] => Array ( [name] => > >> ayservenet.jpg [type] => image/pjpeg [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpfJyDSw > >> [error] => 0 [size] => 3030 ) ) > >> > >> I had experienced this also on Windows IIS now it is also coming on my > >> Linux yet I have full access to the two servers. > >> > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php