[ciapug] PHP file upload and permissions....

[David Champion]

What's "groups www-data" return? The "usermod" syntax is goofy, and I 
know I've messed it up before.

Also, a look at "ls -la files" might be helpful for troubleshooting.

Could be that whatever upload method you're using is trying to chown the 
files too (older versions of WinSCP would complain about this). I 
usually do a "chmod g+s <folder>" to maintain group ownership on 
directories & contents in this kind of situation.

-dc

Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> Here's the issue. My webserver runs under www-data. I have a user (in 
> /etc/passwd) of the name 'codeclub'. www-data is a member of the group 
> 'codeclub'. I'm attempting to upload a file to that directory. Here is 
> how the directory has it's permissions:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x    2 codeclub codeclub     1.3K 2005-03-08 11:14 files
> 
> Apache should be able to upload to this since www-data is a member of 
> codeclub, right? For some reason, it doesn't work. If I chmod o+w files, 
> I can upload fine... Here is a uploaded file permisssions after doing 
> o+w on the directory:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 www-data www-data     980K 2005-03-08 11:14 winscp374.exe
> 
> Any ideas on why I have to make it world writable? Shouldn't just group 
> writable work?
> 
> Jon