Php fails to create directory while all permissions should be set:

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I've read all the relevant topics and went trough the anwers, but my program is still not workint properly.

I get the following error message:

Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/printing/uploader_temp.php on line 28

Where line 28 looks like this:

mkdir("upload", 0777, true);

The current user who is logged in is called "server". The owner of both var/www/ and var/www/printing is "server". (without " of course) The attribute of var/www/ptinting is -777.

I modified the following rows in /etc/apache2/envvars to look like this:

export APACHE_RUN_USER=server
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=server

and restarted apache server.

I can create folders manually on server or using FTP.

Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong? Where else should I set permissions?

The OS is Ubuntu.

Thank you for your answers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5246114/php-mkdir-permission-denied-problem This could help. — Fabian Schneider, Mar 26 '14 at 14:09
Thanks, I've already read that. I am using Ubuntu, not MAC OS and I set user and group as enviroment variable. — user3464454, Mar 26 '14 at 14:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '14 at 15:10

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Did you tried to give permissions to apache user? I had this problem on my web application and I solved it in two commands:

chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/webserver/www
chmod -R g+rw /path/to/webserver/www

Hope this helps for you too.

answered Apr 14 '14 at 15:10

Angel

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '14 at 15:12

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Try to have a look to AppArmor:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor

Try to create a file or a directory in the /tmp/, can you?

answered Apr 14 '14 at 15:12

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Php fails to create directory while all permissions should be set:

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