Posted by chris on 11/18/05 08:14

unfortunatly i dont have root access to install any other modules

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"Michael Vilain" <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <ops0eo8y1or1c5ad@lancer>, Berimor <berimor@berimor.ber>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:57:58 +0800, chris <someone@here.com> wrote:
>>
>> > im trying to rename a file using the rename(old file, new file)
>> > function
>> >
>> > i have also tried the copy funtion also
>> >
>> > the folder that the files are in are chmod 755
>> > and the files themself are chmod 644
>> >
>> > if i run the script on my own domain it works as expected
>> >
>> > however i am trying to run it on another domain on another server, the
>> > files and directory have the same permissions as mentioned above but i
>> > get a
>> > PHP Permission denied warning.
>> >
>> > my domain is running php 5.
>> > the problem domain is running PHP 4.3.11
>> >
>> > any idea why this is not working
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem is in Apache + general system configuration. The PHP
>> interpretator by itself (or module - if installed as part of Apache )
>> doesnt have enough rights to make such manipulations with file system. I
>> have some domains with the same problem and tech guys usually says - we
>> made this because of security reason. But i think that they are not
>> expirienced enough and are not sure - that's why cosiders this as the
>> best
>> way to defend themselves from probable hacks.
>
> If the code that's doing the rename is running as an Apache module
> mod_php, then the process that's doing the rename is likely the Apache
> process. It's probably running as nobody or www or apache. It may not
> have write permissions to write into the directory where the newfile is
> being placed.
>
> To get around this, run php as a CGI script with the CGIwrap wrapper:
>
> http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/
>
> This will force the child process running the php code to run as a
> specific user ID. It also requires that php be built as a command line
> utility.
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