Question

I have 4 drives in my (yes, physically in the box, sata connected) Ubuntu 10.10 system with xampp installed at the /opt/lampp/ dir on the OS drive. The OS drive (ssd, lets call it drive1 for sanity) has the correct file permissions to allow for PHP (user www-data) to read/write to any of my htdocs and vhosts folder(s).

My problem comes with I try to move a file that exists on one of the other 3 drives. Each of my other drives are ntfs (1tb, 1.5tb and 2.0tb) and mounted with fstab. When I view the file permissions with the gui (nautilus) it says that everything is root. So I tried chown, chmod, etc. I found out that you can’t change the permissions of ntfs with those commands. So I went to my fstab config, however I can’t get those permissions set to allow for PHP to copy/rename/move a file within even one of the drives.

I updated to using the UUID’s today, the drives are also shared on my local network and that still works just fine.

I changed to the ntfs-3g driver after installing, restarted the machine but I’m still not able to have php move a file.

Here is my fstab file:
UUID=552A7C6B05CEAAD2 /media/v1tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0
UUID=DE58539158536775 /media/v1.5tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0
UUID=3D80C54D5D100280 /media/v2.0tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0

Also, I tried to use the following and its working just fine:

sudo -u www-data cp '/media/v2.0tb/path/to/file' '/media/v2.0tb/path/to/newfile'

How does imitating a user work, but php’s rename/copy functions won’t work?

How can I set the php user (www-data) to allow for copying/renaming/deleting files and directories on these ntfs drives? Do I have to reformat them?

Answer 1

Depends on the actual ntfs driver used. For ntfs-3g you can use the uid= and gid= params in the fstab. There is also a usermapping= feature that might be of interest. See also the manpage