Posted by "Keith Spiller" on 10/21/62 11:28

Hi Jasper,

When using my Php script, I don't see any error messages.

I have logged in using SSH, but the directories created are
owned by 48 and not my ftp user and so I have to switch
to a super user to make any changes.

Also, even though I use:
mkdir("$endpath", 0777);
The resulting directories end up as 755.

Yeah I have a feeling that you are right, that apache on
my server does not have chown permissions.

Thank you very mych for your help.


Keith

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] chown function


> Keith Spiller wrote:
>> I'm using:
>>
>> chown("$endpath", "admin");
>>
>> to try to change the owner of directories after using mkdir()
>> to create them. It continues to fail on my remote Fedora server.
>
> With what error message? Have you tried logging in with SSH or similar and
> trying the same command?
>
> More than likely the user apache is running as doesn't have permissions to
> chown -- in fact I believe that in order to chown files one must be root
> (at least that's the way it seems to work on my system).
>
> You could use chmod instead to allow the "admin" user access to your
> files.
>
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