PHP mkdir Permission denied problem

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I am trying to create a directory with PHP mkdir function but I get an error as follows  Warning  mkdir    function mkdir   Permission denied in      How to settle down the problem

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Don t set permissions to 777 when using mkdir in PHP Link only answers are not considered good practice on StackOverflow  but the advice that is given here should generally NOT be followed up  I would like to revert to this great answer on a similar question  I quote   Please stop suggesting to use 777  You re making your file writeable by everyone  which pretty much means you lose all security that the permission system was designed for  If you suggest this  think about the consequences it may have on a poorly configured webserver  it would become incredibly easy to  quot hack quot  the website  by overwriting the files  So  don t

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check if its not a issue with umask   if   function exists  mkdir r                     create directory recursively         param  dirName         param int  rights         param string  dir separator         return bool             function mkdir r  dirName   rights   0744   dir separator   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR             dirs   explode  dir separator   dirName            dir                created   false          foreach   dirs as  part                 dir     part    dir separator              if   is dir  dir   amp  amp  strlen  dir   gt  0                     created   mkdir  dir   rights                                   return  created           if   function exists  ensure dir                     ensure directory exist if not create          param  dir path         param int  mode         param bool  use mask         param int  mask         return bool             function ensure dir  dir path   mode   0744   use mask   true   mask   0002               set mask           old mask    use mask  amp  amp   mask    null               umask  mask                null          try               return is dir  dir path     mkdir r  dir path   mode             finally               if   use mask  amp  amp   old mask    null                       restore original                 umask  old mask

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I know this is an old thread  but it needs a better answer  You shouldn t need to set the permissions to 777  that is a security problem as it gives read and write access to the world  It may be that your apache user does not have read write permissions on the directory   Here s what you do in Ubuntu   Make sure all files are owned by the Apache group and user  In Ubuntu it is the www-data group and user  chown -R www-data www-data  path to webserver www Next enabled all members of the www-data group to read and write files  chmod -R g rw  path to webserver www   The php mkdir   function should now work without returning errors

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You need to have file system permission to create the directory   Example  In Ubuntu 10 04 apache  php  runs as user  www-data in group  www-data  Meaning the user www-data needs access to create the directory   You can try this yourself by using   su www-data  to become the www-data user   As a quick fix  you can do  sudo chmod 777 my parent dir

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Late answer for people who find this via google in the future   I ran into the same problem    NOTE  I AM ON MAC OSX LION  What happens is that apache is being run as the user   www  and doesn t have permissions to edit any files  You ll notice NO filesystem functions work via php   How to fix   Open a finder window and from the menu bar  choose Go   Go To Folder    private etc apache2  now open httpd conf  find   User  www  Group  www   change the username   User  lt YOUR LOGIN USERNAME gt    Now restart apache by running this form terminal   sudo apachectl -k restart   If it still doesn t work  I happen to do the following before I did the above  Could be related   Open terminal and run the following commands   note  my webserver files are located at  Library WebServer www  Change according to your website location   sudo chmod 775  Library WebServer www sudo chmod 775  Library WebServer www

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What the other thing you can do is go to   etc sudoers  There add the following line which gives the permission to that user www-data ALL  ALL ALL  ALL Why www-data   this is because apache is running by this user name   Incase if your user is different then try  username ALL  ALL ALL  ALL  This worked for me

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I have this problem just now  my best solution I can give to you right now  despite that you didn t include any of your code  would be    Check how you name your destination folder  eg  new folder  sometimes this can cause error for permission as most hosts don t allow names using underscore  dash  etc to be created at run time   It worked for me  If you were using recursive command to create sub-folders don t forget to put 0755  remember to include 0 at the start  to the mkdir command  eg   if  file exists  output        if   mkdir  output  0755  true      0755         die  Failed to create folders                   This is also worked for me just now

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If you r using LINUX  first let s check apache s user  since in some distros it can be different   egrep -i   user  group   etc httpd conf httpd conf    Let s say the result is  http   Do the folowwing  just remember change path to folder to folders path   chown -R http http path to folder chmod -R g rw path to folder

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Fix the permissions of the directory you try to create a directory in

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After you install the ftp server with sudo apt-get install vsftpd you will have to configure it  To enable write access you have to edit the  etc vsftpd conf file and uncomment the    write enable YES   line  so it should read  write enable YES   Save the file and restart vsftpd with sudo service vsftpd restart   For other configuration options consult this documentation or man vsftpd conf

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Since you are on a mac  you could add yourself to the  www  the apache user group  group on your mac   sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a  USER -t user  www   and add  www user to the wheel group which seems to be what the mac creates files as   sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a  www -t user wheel

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This error occurs if you are using the wrong path    For e g   I m using ubuntu system and my project folder name is  myproject   Suppose I have myproject public report directory exist and want to create a new folder called orders  Then I need a whole path where my project exists  You can get the path by PWD command  So my root path will be     home htdocs myproject     dir     home htdocs myproject public report Orders    if   is dir  dir        mkdir  dir  0775  true       It will work for you    Enjoy

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I know that this thread is old  but perhaps this will help someone  one day   The problem why PHP says  Permission denied  for mkdir   - wrong url path  So  to fix it  all you need it s to obtain correct path  I did it this way    lt  php   root     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     dir    root     somefolder     if   file exists  dir          mkdir  dir  0755  true        gt

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