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

[Jonathan Bailey]

Ah. I guess that makes sense. My mind was thinking 'why have execute 
when it isn't needed'. But I guess it is :-D.


Jon


Jerry Weida wrote:

>yes, directories need the +x attribute set.  This allows a user (in
>this case your webserver) to cd into that directory.
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>On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:17:41 -0600, Jonathan Bailey <jcbailey@code0.net> wrote:
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>>Sweet! After a chmod g+s, it works fine. BTW, the upload method is PHPs
>>move_uploaded_file (or whatever it actually is) function. BTW, do
>>directories need X set on them? It seems that if I remove X on
>>directories, Apache complains about not being able to access .htaccess....
>>
>>Jon
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>>David Champion wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>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
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