/var/www/ Permissions problems

[noop]

Hello,

I am trying to host a website but I seem to be having a ton of problems with permissions. I have a second user, in the root usergroup, that has control of the /var/www/ directory for where my sites are hosted (I have a few virtual sites that are hosted inside of the www directory). The problem that I have is when my php script tries to create a folder, it creates the folder under the www-data username and usergroup, apache's default username/group I assume.

The problem with this is when my php script tries to create a directory/move a file, it is issuing me gobs of errors stating it doesn't have correct permissions. For example, when I run the mkdir( 'myfolder', 0777); command in a php script, it will only make a folder with the max permissions of 0755.

What would you recommend to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance,
noop

[joe_cuek]

just add below in your php scrip:

mkdir("myfolder",0777);
chmod("myfolder",0777);

it can change your permission to rwxrwxrwx

[noop]

The folder still remains at 755

[joe_cuek]

try this:
#chmod 777 /var/www
#chown www-data /var/www

n add this:

just add below in your php scrip:

mkdir("myfolder",0777);
chmod("myfolder",0777);

it can change your permission to rwxrwxrwx

it work in my compiz..
try to check via terminal

#ls -l /var/www