RE: [Nolug] file upload problems w/ PHP

Why not just give apache read write permissions to the folder you want the
uploaded stuff to go?
That's what I do, and it works.

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Steven Cardella
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:01 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: [Nolug] file upload problems w/ PHP
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm putting together a website, and I'm trying to set it up
> so that my
> users can upload pics with their articles/news/etc and have it work
> automagically...
>
> The problem is that I'm running into permissions problems...
>
> they'll upload a file, and it saves it to /tmp/whatever.jpg. No
> problem here.
> If i try using move_uploaded_file("/Users/someone/images") or
> similar,
> it fails; permissions problem.
>
> If I try to have it run the shell script, via
> $errs=`ncftpput -u someone -p somepasswd localhost ./images/
> /tmp/whatever.jpg`;
> it'll upload the file alright, but I won't have permission to read it
> (for some reason).
> If I try to add a -X "chmod 0766 %s", it doesn't seem to execute the
> extra ftp command:
> $errs=`ncftpput -u someone -p somepasswd -X "chmod 0766 %s" \
> localhost ./images/ /tmp/whatever.jpg`;
>
> I can't su to user someone, because it's not on the sudoers
> list, and I
> don't have root access.
>
> manually using ncftp to upload it works fine, ie:
> ncftp -u someone -p somepasswd localhost
> >cd images
> >put /tmp/whatever.jpg
> >chmod 0766 whatever.jpg
> >quit
> gives me exactly what I need, it's just being ornery to automate.
>
> btw, the people I'm writing it for wouldn't understand how to
> use a ftp
> program.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Steve Cardella
>
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