Ubuntu php mkdir

Question

I'm trying to create a directory but I get the wrong permissions everytime it creates the new directory.

Permissions on the file creating the folder:

rwxr-xr-x

Permission on the folder its trying to create it in

rwxr-xr-x

Both are owned by www-data www-data

I try to create the folder with php

mkdir(location,0775);

Result after running the script

r-----rwt

I ran out of reasons to believe it went wrong.

umask is on 002.

Hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '12 at 00:28

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$location = "path/to/you/dir";
$uold     = umask(0);

mkdir($location,0777,true);
umask($uold);

give that a try and see what it says...

answered May 19 '12 at 00:28

Ian Wood

then try 0777 it should (after the application of the mask) give you 775 - rwxrwxr-x – Ian Wood May 19 '12 at 00:36
Will end up as 407 still (r-----rwt , not sure what the t means though) – John May 19 '12 at 00:40
hmmm perhaps this is something on the permissions the user php is running under has... – Ian Wood May 19 '12 at 00:51
Where should I look? it runs as www-data and everything is owned by www-data – John May 19 '12 at 00:52
switch to that user and try and create a directory in the command line. Just as an experiment - have you tried chmod after mkdir? – Ian Wood May 19 '12 at 00:56

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