the owner of the files i believe will be hte user running the webserver since the
webdserver itself
is making the files.
apache by defauly runs as nobody:nobody
if you want to change this i think php has a chown funciton or you can run your
webserver as a
different user name/group
Ryan Hilton wrote:
> I'm creating directories and files inside of a php program and they are
> owned by nobody.
>
> How can I assign an owner to them and who should the owner be?
>
> Where is documentation for these types of questions?
>
> Here is the code snipet:
>
> create a directory - I would also like to create it with 775 privledges, but
> I can't create a file in the directory unless it is 777:
>
> if(!file_exists(DIRECTORY))
> {
> // create the directory
> $oldumask = umask(0);
> mkdir(DIRECTORY, 0777); // or even 775 is more secure
> umask($oldumask);
> if(!is_dir(DIRECTORY))
> {
> $return_status[0] = false;
> $return_status[1] = "there was an error creating the
>directory.";
> return $return_status;
> }
> }
>
> create a file:
>
> $fd = fopen($file,"w+");
> if(!$fd)
> {
> $return_status[0] = false;
> $return_status[1] = "3) A system configuration error has
>been detected.
> Your request cannot be processed.";
> return $return_status;
> }
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Ryan
>
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