yeah am using apache @chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Chris Mwirigi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mwirigic@gmail.com">mwirigic@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
changing perms to 0777 is a bad idea, just give the ownership of the folder to the user running apache, assuming u r using apache as the web server<br><br>chown apache.apache /var/www/upload <br>chmod -R 755 /var/www/upload<br>

<br><br>Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM, I. Ati <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mueni0@gmail.com" target="_blank">mueni0@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">



i have a folder i have created in<br><br> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">/var/www/</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br>called <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">uploads </span><br><br>in my serve(fedora) .....this folder i want to put my uploaded content  from my web service .......<br>




<br>i have done the following:<br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">su </span><br><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">chown githinji/var/www/uploads</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">




<br></blockquote></div><div><br>This command did not complete with 0 status exit code as you need a space there, so something like:<br><br>chown githinji [space] /var/www/uploads<br><br> </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">



but i keep getting the following error when trying to upload content to the server<br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Warning:  move_uploaded_file(/var/www/uploads/song_1253182839.PNG) [<a href="http://212.213.221.135/tes/jamms6/function.move-uploaded-file" target="_blank">function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">/var/www/html/tes/jamms6/library/Music.php on line </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">46<br>



</span></blockquote></div><div><br>Looks to me like the issue is actually about the permissions on
/var/www/html/.. and not /var/www/uploads unless the two are symlinks.<br>
<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
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<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Warning:  move_uploaded_file() [<a href="http://212.213.221.135/tes/jamms6/function.move-uploaded-file" target="_blank">function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: Unable to move &#39;/tmp/phpNwzvTj&#39; to &#39;/var/www/uploads/song_1253182839.PNG&#39; in </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">/var/www/html/tes/jamms6/library/Music.php on line </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">46<br>





Unable to upload song<br></span></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div> </div></div></div>My suggestion to you, if acceptable, is to run an FTP server which
chroot()s the users to their designated upload directory and let them
upload via FTP.<br><font color="#888888">
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