Question

When I create a directory with PHP’s mkdir(), the folders’ owner is ‘apache’. When I create a directory over FTP, the owner is ‘ftpadmin’.

For some strange reason, with PHP’s rename() function I can’t move any files into a directory owned by ‘apache’. I’ve chmod() both the file and the directory to 777 and 0777, but ‘apache’ refuses to move any files into directories it created. I can have ‘apache’ move files into an ‘ftpadmin’ directory. I’ve tried chmod() and mkdir() with 777, 0777, 755, 0755, 1777, 01777 and more.

The directories need to be dynamically generated by my client, and files need to be moved in and out.

The server is a dedicated-virtual server that I have can ssh into and have admin rights to.

Answer 1

Perhapse safe-mode features? http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.functions.php

rename() Checks whether the files or directories being operated upon have the same UID (owner) as the script that is being executed. Checks whether the directory in which the script is operating has the same UID (owner) as the script that is being executed.

If safe mode is on, turn it of, and solve the functionality it provides at a proper level. If this isn’t the problem, showing the actual error php undoubtedly emits could help us a lot.