Question

I am learning PHP and trying to upload a file using this code :

$destination = "uploads/".$_FILES['userfile']['name'];
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $destination);

but I am faced with

failed to open stream: Permission denied

I can change the permissions for the “uploads” directory to be writable by everybody, but of course this is bad practice.
The folder permissions are :

drwxr-xr-x 2 loai loai 4096 Dec 30 12:44 uploads

and running ps aux | grep httpd yields

loai      6728  0.0  0.0   4368   832 pts/1    S+   18:37   0:00 grep --colour=auto httpd

so shouldn’t the apache process be able to write in the given directory ?
Thanks

Answer 1

First, as noted in comments to the question, your ps output is showing the grep process itself, not httpd process (or whatever your web server is). So that probably means that your web server is running as a different user, not as loai. Either change ownership of the uploads folder or make it group-writable and then add web server’s user to the appropriate group