Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/16/07 09:26

kkadrese@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I'm implementing file upload in webpage. And got stuck with file
> permissions. An uploaded file gets 0600 and as such cannot be shown in
> the webpage, as far as I understand it needs at least 0644.
>
> So I did a little investigation and found:
> 1) the upload folder has 0755, set by hand.
> 2) echo `umask` in the upload folder and actually in the higher levels
> of the webserver folders gives 0022.

Why use "echo"? you get the value by just using umask without arguments.

> 3) a file created by fopen in php file called via webserver gets 0644,
> in the upload folder.
> 4) and, as already said, uploaded file gets 0600.

from the php.ini:

; The file storage module creates files using mode 600 by default.
; You can change that by using


> Where did that 0022 (Group,Other: Write) appear from? Is it right for
> the webserver?

The server/php don't regard the umask that the standard shell has.
I do guess the easiest is to change the privilege bits from within php with
chmod() or set another umask with umask().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.umask.php


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//Aho

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