I have one issue in one of my site. When I upload an image, it creates a folder and then uploading images inside the folder. Creating folder is working fine for me, but image can not be uploaded. move_uploaded_files is returning false without any error message.
When I checked manually, All folders have proper 777 permission. When folder is created by my code, owner is "apache".
But, when I created a folder manually via ftp, then owner is my username "aayushi", for this folder, upload image is working fine.
Any idea how can I fix the issue? OR how can I give rights to "apache" owner to upload images...
Thanks in advance.
When a folder is created, the owner will be the user who created the folder - in your ftp client, this is the user you logged in as; in PHP, this will be the user the PHP script runs as (in this case, the apache user). Most likely, your problem is the umask setting of Apache when it creates these folders. Setting the umask is covered in the PHP manual.
If you can find a copy of Sklar and Trachtenberg's "PHP Cookbook" somewhere, check out Recipe 19.11 ("Making New Directories") for a bit more discussion on how this works - there may be other tutorials as well, but this is one I found to be pretty clear.
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I'm using the PHP copy function to copy a file from one folder to another. But if the folder I'm copying to is a Dropbox folder, it doesn't work. This works fine and the file is copied into the test2 folder:
copy('c:/test/test.txt','c:/test2/test.txt');
This doesn't work and the file is not copied:
copy('c:/test/test.txt','c:/Dropbox/test.txt');
Dropbox is my root Dropbox folder. Does anyone know of why this is happening and what I can do to fix this? I'm using IIS and PHP on Windows Server. Thanks in advance.
Make sure your path is exactly as it appears to be. Also consider case sensitivity. That is usually a problem that throws me off. Also make sure that all permissions to the 3rd party app are validated.
So I figured out the issue. It was an issue with the permissions on the Dropbox folder. For some reason when Dropbox created the folder, it doesn't allow the folder to inherit permissions. To fix this, I right-clicked on the Dropbox folder, selected Properties, went to the Security tab, clicked on Advanced, and then selected enable inheritance.
This allows the Dropbox folder to inherit permission from it containing folder and fixed my issue.
I am trying to give someone FTP access to an NGINX /var/www/sitename folder on an Ubuntu server so they can upload development files. I have created a user 'developername' and assigned them to the 'www-data-' group. They are able to upload files, but the images (apparently only the images) are not displaying on the site. I need to SSH in and change all of the files to www-data:www-data in order for them to display correctly.
I'm trying to find a way for this user to upload files and either automatically change them to www-data:www-data or to allow NGINX to use the developername:www-data files. Do you have any ideas?
I've just been using git for a couple of years now and had tried my best to not use FTP at all anymore... This setup is a little infuriating.
Thanks for your time and any responses!
In case someone else runs into this, I first got uploaded files to automatically be in the correct group by doing this:
chmod g+s root_web_folder_name
This made all uploaded files already have the www-data group. Then I went and updated the local_umask setting in the vsftpd.conf file:
local_umask=0002
Now images are appearing when the developer uploads new files. Make sure to set permissions correctly there, I just have it lax because it's a quick test site.
I have a access to the server where many wordpress blogs are hosted. Initially the permission to uploads folder were set to 777(Recursively) but this caused problems to our server and malicious files where uploaded due to which our server is blacklisted.
I have deleted all those PHP files under uploads folder and set the permission to 755.
Now the problem is that the admin users to wordpress blogs/sites unable to upload media files.
Please guide me what I can do so that they can upload files (images or videos).
Can we set something which will ask FTP details when they upload files using wordpress admin. I can create FTP users for this.
Please Guide.
Not sure what type of error you are getting. But you can try this
add this line to
define('UPLOADS', 'wp-content/uploads');
wp-config.php
just before below line
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
If the directory doesn’t already exist, WordPress will automatically create it as long as the wp-content folder is writeable.
Hey I just set the Permission to chmod -v 747 uploads and it worked. Atleast better than 777.
But would like to here suggestion if this is risky. If risky then how much. I am new to permissions and server management.
Thanks !
I know this is an old thread but I found it high in the results for an unrelated issue I am having. It seemed by the permission modes being used #vanurag was actually having a user/group permissions issue rather than the permission modes (755 vs 777) issue.
You can find the web server user with var_dump(whoami()) in php, could be something like www-data.
Once know the user name verify that user is either the owner of the folder or is in the group assigned to the folder. You can use the following in Linux console to find current user/group.
ls -l /path/to/wp-content/uploads
Either add the web server user (www-data) as the owner and leave the group as it is or add the user to the group who have permissions.
Use chown (change owner) to set your users to your needs.
I usually add the user to the group rather than change the owner since the owner could be an FTP user and may mess up permissions used else where in your configuration.
usermod -g www-data foobar where foobar is the name of the group who has permissions to the uploads folder.
Here is a decent article on this issue in respect to WordPress uploads folder.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/proper-permissions-for-web-server-s-directory
I have an image upload script. I ran into some trouble with permission errors so for the last little while the upload directory has had permissions 0777. Dangerous, I know.
For some reason, it was the only permission that would allow the files to upload. I have now realised that the reason a safer permission didn't work was because of the owner of the directory.
I've been creating my upload directories using FTP. I thought this would be okay. But from what I understand FTP and HTTP aren't in the same group?
I've started creating the directories using PHPs mkdir() allows me to set a safer permission that works with my script.
But before I possibly get into another bad habit. Can someone please confirm that this is the correct way to do it? Is there a better way?
The owner of the directory should be the user which runs your PHP script - on Ubuntu this would be www-data. Shortly, creating folders with PHP mkdir() is okay. Then you should set permissions. 0700 is the most secure but if other user needs to read from or write to this directory, you should add this user to the main group of user which runs your PHP script and set permissions to 0750 or 0770 respectively. On Ubuntu this group is also www-data.
So I created a couple of directories and files with FTP, thus the owner is the username I use to login to the server. Now I'd like to allow users of the website to upload images to those directories. Unfortunately for the website to store images, it should be owned by Apache. How can I fix this? I've been reading around on this but can't directly find an answer.
I don't have SSH, so I guess all command-line-things are not applicable for me.
Edit
I tried to then make the folders again using apache, but now ofcourse I can't write any files using ftp into those directories.
Provided that at least the one directory is writeable by the apache user (lets call this directory 'writeabledir', it may be your root dir '/'), you must delete the folders you created via ftp and create a php script to create the directories you need.
If for example you want a directory called users and inside it another directory called upload
Create file makedirs.php on your server.
<?php
$oldumask = umask(0);
mkdir("writeabledir/users/upload",0777,true); // or even 01777 so you get the sticky bit set
umask($oldumask);
?>
Now run your makedirs.php once, by calling your.serv.er/makedirs.php on your browser
EDIT:
If you don't want to delete and recreate your directories,you could always try to change file permissions from ftp.
For exampe with FileZilla, just right click on the desired folder and set permissions to 777. If your ftp user does not have permission to do this, then there is no other way, except from asking an administrator to do this for you.
EDIT2:
Added umask to ensure that folders created by apache are writeable by everyone. (taken from http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php#1207 )
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