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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] 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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:09:07 +0100
> >> From: Bunmi Akinmboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
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> >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] 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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