Hi Lee: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, 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. > > What are the 0 - Server running as 1 - File ownership If you make the user ownership for the directory the same user your server is running as you can use 755. -- (503) 754-4452 iPhone (623) 239-3392 Skype (623) 688-3392 Google Voice http://www.it-clowns.com "If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."