I chmod’ed the directory to 777, same with the directory contents. Still, I get a ‘permission denied’ error. Does PHP throw this error if apache is not the group/owner, regardless of the file permissions? Here’s the call that’s failing:
rename('/correct/path/to/dir/1', '/correct/path/to/dir/2');
You’re editing the higher level directory, so the PHP user needs to have write access to that directory.