Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : Not chmodding. Please help

[Doh004]

Aight I'm having a problem. I'm making a directory from a $_POST and it's protected and all, however once it is created, the proper CHMOD isn't correct, nor even any number at all, it's set to 0.

I've tried: mkdir($_POST['username'] , 0777);

I've also tried:
mkdir($_POST['username']);
chmod($_POST['username'] , 0777);

AND system(chmod 0777 , $_POST['username']);

And I can't even change the created directory through FTP. Please help.

[alex_ch]

set corresponding umask before you create a dir
if you need 0x777, then
umask(0000);
mkdir('ur_dir', 0777);

that can help

[Doh004]

Wow this is seriously messed up:

Warning: mkdir(artic): Permission denied in /home/virtual/site3/fst/home/myimg/public_html/functions.php on line 106

So basically I can't do jack? I own the server and administer everyhitng, how could this be???

[Burhan]

It means that Apache doesn't have the proper rights to change permissions. If you chown the files to the apache user, the permission errors should go away.

[EXOWorks]

is the directory /home/virtual/site3/fst/home/myimg/public_html/ chmoded to 0777 ?

and the php is compiled as an apache module right ??

[Doh004]

Originally posted by Mike_R
is the directory /home/virtual/site3/fst/home/myimg/public_html/ chmoded to 0777 ?

and the php is compiled as an apache module right ??

Yes and I believe so.

[Doh004]

Um my webhost guy says when php creates a folder, it goes to the root account permissions. So only the root account can change the CHMOD on it. I don't get it. I mean wtf is the point of mkdir() if you can't set the permissions correct if you are using a user....

[tuxguru]

What is the uid and gid of the directory that was created?

[Doh004]

I'm sorry but whats a uid and gid?

If your asking this account isn't the root directory.

[tuxguru]

That's the user and group of the directory. You can find this by:

ls -ld /path/to/dir

[Doh004]

What difference will this do? This acconut is the root account

[tuxguru]

But, since you are executing the php script via apache, then the php won't be running as root.