Hi Lee,
I know for Apache, httpd runs as the user, "nobody". Unless your directory
is owned by "nobody", you need to open up access. That's why I run suPHP so
that Apache runs as a user allowing 755-like permissions.

Eric Cope

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, <leegold@speedymail.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a LAMP stack on my laptop for learning, "localhost". I'm using
> Lighttpd instead of Apache.
>
> When I try to upload some files via PHP code it didn't work. The target
> folder is /var/www/uploaded_vids
>
> It was 755 and uploads didn't work. I changed it to 777 and now the
> uploads work. It's ls -l is now:
>
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root   4096 2011-04-27 20:50 uploaded_vids
>
> maybe 775 would be enough? Nope, tried  775 for the dir and does *not*
> work. Does it make sense that 775 was not enough permissions?
>
> 777 works. Is this normal? My browser or whatever component is uploading
> is not root? But the server itself is running as root(?).
>
> Could someone help me with uploads regarding permissions so I can better
> understand? What are the permissions normally for an upload dir on a
> server?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee G.
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