Permission denied

Thanks Guys. The problem on my test server was that I had not
established Write permission for Others, I only had Read. Once changed,
all went well.

Brett

.oO(Brett)

>In my test server environment (on my MAC), I have created an upload_test
>folder in my Sites folder, one in my website root folder, and one in my
>Home folder, but every time I attempt to upload an image to any, I get
>an error like the one below:
>
>Warning:
>move_uploaded_file(/Users/brett/upload_test/Toyota_Corolla_91.jpg)
>[function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied
>in /Users/brett/vhosts/test10/upload04.php on line 6
>
>Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to
>move '/private/var/tmp/phpYorkEc' to
>'/Users/brett/upload_test/Toyota_Corolla_91.jpg' in
>/Users/brett/vhosts/test10/upload04.php on line 6
>
>I'm on a MAC running PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.0.24, I'm using Apache 1.3.41
>which was pre-installed on my G5. The PHP/MySQL is a build from Marc
>Liyanage which I installed from instructions in PHP for DW8. Everything
>up until now has worked fine, but then I've never tried to upload using
>PHP until now. This issue seems to be a Permission problem and, try as I
>have, I cannot seem to get the correct permission to upload. In looking
>at the Apache section in phpinfo() I see this:
>
>Hostname:Port localhost:80
>User/Group www(70)/70
>
>and it makes me wonder if I don't have permission because I'm not logged
>in as user www?

Correct. Apache (and many other services and daemons as well) uses its
own user account, usually 'www', 'www-data', 'nouser' or something like
that.

>I log in as brett and I am the administrator so why is
>Apache setting www as the User.

That's the default behaviour.

>If that is the problem, how do I get
>Apache to have me as the user?

You could change it in the Apache config, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Instead you should make the upload directory writable for the server,
for example by changing its owner and group to the one Apache uses. You
could also try to chmod that directory to 0777, but _only_ on your own
local machine, never on a host, as you don't want such a diretory being
writable for everyone.

As a hint: On my own sites I usually have a directory 'var' with full
write access for the web server. In this directory I store session data,
temporary files, my own log and all that stuff. All other directories
are usually not writable for the server.

Micha

Brett wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In my test server environment (on my MAC), I have created an upload_test
> folder in my Sites folder, one in my website root folder, and one in my
> Home folder, but every time I attempt to upload an image to any, I get
> an error like the one below:
>
> Warning:
> move_uploaded_file(/Users/brett/upload_test/Toyota_Corolla_91.jpg)
> [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied
> in /Users/brett/vhosts/test10/upload04.php on line 6
>
> Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to
> move '/private/var/tmp/phpYorkEc' to
> '/Users/brett/upload_test/Toyota_Corolla_91.jpg' in
> /Users/brett/vhosts/test10/upload04.php on line 6
>
> I'm on a MAC running PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.0.24, I'm using Apache 1.3.41
> which was pre-installed on my G5. The PHP/MySQL is a build from Marc
> Liyanage which I installed from instructions in PHP for DW8. Everything
> up until now has worked fine, but then I've never tried to upload using
> PHP until now. This issue seems to be a Permission problem and, try as I
> have, I cannot seem to get the correct permission to upload. In looking
> at the Apache section in phpinfo() I see this:
>
> Hostname:Port localhost:80
> User/Group www(70)/70
>
> and it makes me wonder if I don't have permission because I'm not logged
> in as user www? I log in as brett and I am the administrator so why is
> Apache setting www as the User. If that is the problem, how do I get
> Apache to have me as the user?
>
> TIA for any help.

I have never used PHP before, or Apache, but when your browser is doing
the upload, the user is www, not you, the same way the IIS on Windows
has IUSR_MACHINENAME as the user, unless you set IIS to Authenticate first.

Sorry I couldn't be much more help!

Steve