i dont understand, what are you saying dangerous to...
i just gave an example, at your machine home directory of web server could
be entirely different.....
anyway read my last mail
Nitin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bunmi Akinmboni" <bunmi.akinmboni@ayserve.net>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Help with file upload
> HI Nitin,
> Is that not dangerous as it will affect the entire server structure?
> Bunmi
>
> Nitin wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >>>>
> >>
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