move uploaded file gives failed to open stream Permission denied error

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I keep getting this error when trying to configure the upload directory with Apache 2 2 and PHP 5 3 on CentOS  In php ini  upload tmp dir    var www html mysite tmp file upload   In httpd conf  Directory  var www html mysite tmp file upload  gt      Options  -Indexes     AllowOverride None     Order allow deny     Allow from all  lt  Directory gt   lt Directory  var www html mysite images  gt                  Options -Indexes  lt  Directory gt   CentOS directory permissions  drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 10 01 images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04 54 tmp file upload  No matter what I do  I keep getting this error from PHP when I upload the file   Warning  move uploaded file images robot jpg   failed to open stream  Permission denied in  var www html mysite process php on line 78 Warning  move uploaded file    Unable to move   tmp phpsKD2Qm  to  images robot jpg  in  var www html mysite process php on line 78  As you can see  it never did take the configuration from the php ini file regarding the upload file  What am I doing wrong here

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Change permissions for this folder    chmod -R 0755  var www html mysite images

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Just change the permission of tmp file upload to 755 Following is the command chmod -R 755 tmp file upload

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If you have Mac nbsp OS nbsp X  go to the file root or the folder of your website   Then right-hand click on it  go to get information  go to the very bottom  Sharing  amp  Permissions   open that  change all read-only to read and write   Make sure to open padlock  go to setting icon  and choose Apply to the enclosed items

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You can also run this script to find out the Apache process owner    lt  php echo exec  whoami      gt   And then change the owner of the destination directory to what you ve got  Use the command   chown user destination dir   And then use the command  chmod 755 destination dir   to change the destination directory permission

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It happens if SELinux is enabled  Disable that in  etc selinux config by setting SELINUX disabled and restart the server

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The solution is so easy  Only right click the IMAGE  destination  folder  go to properties  click the permission tab  and change others access to Create and delete files

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This problem happens when the apache user  www-data  does not have permission to write in the folder  To solver this problem you need to put the user inside the group www-data    I just made this   Execute this php code  lt  php echo exec  whoami      gt  to discover the user used by apache  After  execute the commands in the terminal   user machine    cd  var www html  user machine  var www html  ls -l   It will return something like this   total of files  drwxr-xr-x 7 user group size date folder   I kept the user but changed the group to www-data  chown -R user www-data yourprojectfoldername  chmod 775 yourprojectfoldername

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I have tried all the solutions above  but the following solved my problem chcon -R -t httpd sys rw content t your file directory

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I ran into this related issue even after having already successfully run composer  I updated composer  and when running composer install or php composer phar install I got         failed to open stream  Permission denied      It turns out after much research that the previous answers regarding changing permissions for the folder worked  They are just slightly different directories now    In my install  on OS nbsp X  the cache file is in  Users  USER   composer cache  and I was having trouble because the cache file was owned by root   Changing ownership of   composer  recursively to my user solved the issue   This is what I did    sudo chown -R  USER  cache   Then I ran the composer install again and voila

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Try this  find  var www html mysite images  -type f -print0   xargs -0 chmod -v 664

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This is because images and tmp file upload are only writable by root user  For upload to work we need to make the owner of those folders same as httpd process owner OR make them globally writable  bad practice     Check apache process owner   ps aux   grep httpd  The first column will be the owner typically it will be nobody Change the owner of images and tmp file upload to be become nobody or whatever the owner you found in step 1    sudo chown nobody  var www html mysite images    sudo chown nobody  var www html mysite tmp file upload   Chmod images and tmp file upload now to be writable by the owner  if needed  Seems you already have this in place   Mentioned in  Dmitry Teplyakov answer     sudo chmod -R 0755  var www html mysite images     sudo chmod -R 0755  var www html mysite tmp file upload   For more details why this behavior happend  check the manual http   php net manual en ini core php ini upload-tmp-dir   note that it also talking about open basedir directive

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Try this    open  etc apache2 envvars  sudo gedit  etc apache2 envvars  replace www-data with your your username   export APACHE RUN USER www-data     replace with  export APACHE RUN USER  your username

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I wanted to add this to the previous suggestions  If you are using a version of Linux that has SELinux enabled then you should also execute this in a shell   chcon -R --type httpd sys rw content t  path to your directory   Along with giving your web server user permissions either through group or changing of the owner of the directory

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This worked for me   sudo adduser  lt username gt  www-data sudo chown -R www-data www-data  var www sudo chmod -R g rwX  var www   Then logout or reboot   If SELinux complains  try the following  sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd sys rw content t   var www        sudo restorecon -Rv   var www

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