salmobytes wrote:
> Perhaps this is an apache server question, rather than a php
> question. But I want to use a simple php upload script in
> a user-home-sub-document-root dir on a standard linux box.
>
> If php is a mod.so it is the apache process that does the
> uploading, so it cannot upload into a directory that belongs
> to "username" unless the file permissions are 777,
> or perhaps......some way to use group permissions that
> allows the apache process to write to a directory whose
> group bit is readable and writable.
>
> I tried creating a new group definition in /etc/group
> and then made the apache pseudo user a member, as well
> as a test user, and then set the directory permission
> on that user's public_html directory to 775
>
> But the upload process still throws an error message.
> There must be a way to do this, without setting the dir
> permission to 777
>
>
> Is running php as a cgi and then wading through all the
> suexec pitfalls the only alternative to 777 permissions?
>
>

Actually, it's more of a Linux admin question. Could be Apache, but
definitely not PHP. Setting the owner of the file and directory to the
group and making Apache a member of the group should work.

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