Our PHP scripts create dynamic folders and files and we are having a permission issue. The folders were initially create using our ftpuser.
EG: Album (created by ftpuser) all subfolders and files in them have to be dynamically created. The apache user is the user when a new folder is created and then it cannot write anything to that folder for some reason.
The server is running with PHP safe mode OFF.
Whenever a folder is created by php script the user is apache and the permission for some reason shows as dr----x--t
Thanks.
Find the place in the PHP where the folder is created. Typically, this will be:
mkdir( folderName );
Change the line to:
mkdir( folderName, 1755 );
Or, instead, add this line after the mkdir:
chmod( folderName, 1755 );
For more information, here's the PHP mkdir documentation.
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I'm sure this is an easy fix but I'm new to PHP and have been stuck on this for a while.
My application creates a new folder for each 'user.' My issue is that the new folder just saves directly to the root directory of the project. I would like the data to save to a 'data' folder within the root.
mkdir($user_id); //creates a folder with the user's name at root directory
mkdir("/path/to/project/data/" . $user_id) //should create a new folder under a specified directory?
What am I missing? Shouldn't the second code create the folder in the specified directory? Both lines of the code seem to create username folders at the root directory when run.
This is mostly comment, but a bit long to fit in the available space.
mkdir($user_id); //creates a folder with the user's name at root directory
No it doesn't. Assuming that the string passed as an argument does not contain a directory seperator, it creates a directory in the current directory where your code is running. If your code is running in the root directory, your security model is very, very broken.
mkdir("/path/to/project/data/" . $user_id) //should create a new folder under a specified directory?
Only if /path/to/project/data already exists, is writeable and is a directory. Unless $user_id contains "../../../../.." I think its very unlikely that this will create a directory in /.
Both lines of the code seem to create username folders at the root directory when run.
You didn't say if your application is accessed via a webserver or is running natively on the system via CLI or as a daemon. Nor did you mention what OS this is on.
If your webserver can modify your root directory then your security is seriously broken and MUST be fixed. If your code is running in the CLI API, then you shouldn't be running it as root / and admin user.
For a project I'm implementing a file-upload system. For every user account I would like the script to create a different sub-folder. Lets say their user_id's.
Each time a user is added, the system will create a new sub-folder for their own uploads. For example:
Uploads/
- user1
- user2
- user3
By executing mkdir('Uploads/'.$user_id, 0777); it will create a new subfolder. Everything is fine.
However my application is not able to write to this folder. How do I have php make directories with the required file permissions? I have tried using chmod with no success.
This might help chmod and mkdir
$dirMode = 0777;
mkdir($directory, $dirMode, true);
// chmod the directory since it doesn't seem to work on recursive paths
chmod($directory, $dirMode);
For mkdir, mode is ignored on Windows. and 0777 is by default. and the third param is recursive which allows the creation of nested directories specified in the pathname.
sometimes the directory created with another mode than specified ( 0755 instead 0777 etc).
to solve that use :
<?php
$old = umask(0);
mkdir($dir,0777);
umask($old);
?>
I have my web application hosted in /var/www folder. I am creating a folder from one of the PHP scripts of the web application. The default permission of the created folder is drwx------, i.e. 700. But I want that folder to have at least 755 permission.
Up to now I tried: mkdir($path, 0755) and chmod($path, 0755) PHP functions but without any success.
Does anybody know how to solve my problem please?
Millions of thanks beforehand.
Have you tried changing the umask ?
Have a look here: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.umask.php
The easiest way it to:
$oldmask = umask(0);
chmod($path, 0755);
umask($oldmask)
Since you have default permission of 700, which means the parent directory (the directory in which you are trying to create the folder) do not have rw permission for group owner or other users. Most often the running demon(httpd) is not the owner of the parent folder and hence cannot modify the directory.
In simple terms, the php script do not have access to modify or add new directory. You need to change the permission of the parent folder to at least drwxrw-rw- (or 0755).
Use ssh, cpanel or ftp client to do this. If you do it using php script you will end with the same problem again, as parent of parent will have again 0700. ;)
How do I create a directory using codeigniter? Basically what I am trying to do is allow user to upload files and then create a directory on the fly for storing these file could anyone point me on how could I create a directory using codeigniter
Thanks
All efforts will be appreciated
I have run the following codes in windows which works perfect for me-
<?php
$path = "uploads/product";
if(!is_dir($path)) //create the folder if it's not already exists
{
mkdir($path,0755,TRUE);
}
?>
Here 0755 is permission of the folder to be created. 755 means you can do anything with the file or directory, and other users can read and execute it but not alter it. Suitable for programs and directories you want to make publicly available.
Use mkdir
mkdir("/path/to/my/dir");
i was using this basic script:
$folderPath = "../path/to/$folder/";
mkdir("$folderPath");
i create this directory and then upload photos to it. I've been doing this for a good 4-5 months now and suddenly i start getting 'FORBIDDEN' errors when I attempt to view the contents of the folder via web browser
The directory is being created the same and the photos are still uploading without a problem, but I cannot access the photos
I tried rewriting the script and using chmod to change the permissions but I'm having no luck at all
All the older folders were being created with: -w- rwx r-x r-x
and I can't get this recreated
I've tried adding a chmod line into my script:
$folderPath = "../sales/inventory/$folder/";
mkdir("$folderPath");
chmod("$folderPath", 0755);
but I can't recreate the same permissions, I'm trying to understand how chmod works, but I can't figure out how to get this very basic function working properly again
Try looking out for a HTAccess file, where the "Options -Indexes" option will be mentioned, as this is mostly used for not showing the contents of a folder in a web browser. The file needs to be searched in the following manner:-
In the folder "root_folder/sales/inventory/$folder/", where "$folder" is as mentioned in your code.
If not found, try in the folder "root_folder/sales/inventory/".
If not found, try in the folder "root_folder/sales/".
If not found, try in the folder "root_folder/".
When you get the code of "Options -Indexes" written in the HTAccess file, you can remove / comment that line of code from there, or you can also write another HTAccess file in your required folder of "$folder", where the code will be "Options Indexes".
Also in the PHP page, the logic must be like this:-
<?php
$folderPath = "../sales/inventory/$folder/";
mkdir("$folderPath");
chmod("$folderPath", 0755);
// Use of "copy()" / "move_uploaded_file()" function here, using some "$targetFile" variable.
chmod($targetFile, 0755);
?>
This will help you when you will be unlinking / deleting the uploaded files from the "$folder" folder.
Hope it helps.
If your $folder variable includes some sub-directories your parent directories are maybe not being chmoded to the right permissions. This was the problem I was having on a hired OVH Gentoo server.
Imagine that $folder = '/store1/ally23/shelf42'; so your final directory structure is
../sales/inventory/store1/ally23/shelf42, and you want 0777 permisions.
You do:
mkdir($folderPath, 0777, true) || chmod($folderPath, 0777);
Only the final directory shelf42 is chmoded to 0777. The intermediary directories are created with default permissions (in my case 0744).
There is no recursive option in PHP's chmod command, so you have to loop over the intermediary directories and chmod them individually.
If you're in a shared environment, you may also want to chown after upload, to be on the safe side. Especially if you're running your web server under a user other than your virtual host has permission to access (EG: "nobody" vs "mysite".) This is common with cPanel servers, FWIW.
Simply umask means the default permissions for new files/directories:
<?php
umask(022);
?>
This sets the default permissions for user, groups, and others respectively:
0 - read, write and execute
1 - read and write
2 - read and execute
3 - read only
4 - write and execute
5 - write only
6 - execute only
7 - no permissions