CodeIgniter - Message: mkdir(): Permission denied on Ubuntu - php

Question

I'd like some help please. I have this PHP script inside my Post_model constructor
$dir = FCPATH . 'uploads' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'posts';
if (!is_dir($dir)) {
mkdir($dir, 0755, true);
}
which shows me this error:
Severity: Warning
Message: mkdir(): Permission denied
The main idea is that the project has the ability to create users and these users can upload images, or create folders-albums which are stored in the uploads folder.
I've been struggling to fix this error the last days and can't find a solution. I have tried this code and on Windows and works great, but not on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04)

Answer 1

Please try chmod 777 -R . in your directory

Answer 2

Even i had same problem , i tried with umask, it worked. you can do like this,
$old = umask(0);
mkdir($dir, 0755, true);
umask($old);

Answer 3

[How to Create Directory in PHP / CodeIgniter]
(http://codedpoint.16mb.com/index.php/viewCode?topic=Create%20Directory%20-%20CodeIgnitor)

Answer 4

I suggest you manually create 'uploads' folder and give it 777 permission (not recursive) and then in your php script do the following:
if(!is_dir('./uploads/posts')) //create the folder if if does not already exists
{
mkdir('./uploads/posts',0755,TRUE);
}
by this, every time your script tries to create a new directory, it will have the permission to do so since you are creating the new directory inside uploads which has 777.

Answer 5

the issue probably is the mask :)
if (!function_exists('mkdir_r')) {
/**
* create directory recursively
* #param $dirName
* #param int $rights
* #param string $dir_separator
* #return bool
*/
function mkdir_r($dirName, $rights = 0744, $dir_separator = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
$dirs = explode($dir_separator, $dirName);
$dir = '';
$created = false;
foreach ($dirs as $part) {
$dir .= $part . $dir_separator;
if (!is_dir($dir) && strlen($dir) > 0) {
$created = mkdir($dir, $rights);
}
}
return $created;
}
}
if (!function_exists('ensure_dir')) {
/**
* ensure directory exist if not create
* #param $dir_path
* #param int $mode
* #param bool $use_mask
* #param int $mask
* #return bool
*/
function ensure_dir($dir_path, $mode = 0744, $use_mask = true, $mask = 0002) {
// set mask
$old_mask = $use_mask && $mask != null
? umask($mask)
: null;
try {
return is_dir($dir_path) || mkdir_r($dir_path, $mode);
} finally {
if ($use_mask && $old_mask != null) {
// restore original
umask($old_mask);
}
}
}
}