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11-24-2009, 03:35 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
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Permission denied even with chmod 777
Hello everyone,
i've just setup my first Linux server and installed apache + php. I have a simple PHP script which should just create ja directory. But i always get the following error:
PHP Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/html/default/test.php on line 3
So as you can see the script is within the folder 'default' which has rights set so 777
Code:
ls -rtl
drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2009-11-23 19:38 default
The php script contains this:
PHP Code:
<?
echo substr(decoct( fileperms('.') ), 2);
mkdir("/var/www/html/default/test");
?>
The first line, which echos the current permission shows 777
I've also checked if the httpd process is running with the right user:
Code:
ps aux | grep httpd
root 6765 0.0 0.8 272440 9080 ? Ss Nov23 0:08 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13158 0.0 0.9 274536 9292 ? R 02:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13213 0.0 0.8 273492 8804 ? S 02:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13228 0.0 0.9 273940 9280 ? R 02:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13238 0.1 0.8 273748 8844 ? R 02:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13246 0.0 0.8 273748 8864 ? R 02:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13250 0.0 0.8 273752 9064 ? R 02:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13256 0.0 0.9 274536 9244 ? R 02:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13260 0.1 0.9 274264 9768 ? R 02:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13268 0.0 0.8 273756 8840 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13272 0.0 0.9 274536 9256 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13273 0.0 0.8 273492 8808 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13275 0.0 0.9 274532 9556 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13281 0.0 0.8 273880 8952 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13284 0.0 0.8 273624 8956 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13291 0.0 0.8 273748 8764 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13301 0.0 0.8 273492 8780 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13304 0.0 0.8 273880 9008 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13310 0.0 0.8 273748 8796 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13311 0.0 0.9 274272 9296 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13312 0.0 0.9 274536 9272 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13314 0.0 0.9 274544 9368 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13318 0.0 0.8 273624 8808 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13321 0.0 0.8 273880 8928 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13323 0.0 0.8 273492 8808 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13325 0.1 0.8 273748 8944 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13327 0.0 0.8 273752 9000 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13340 0.0 0.5 272440 5540 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13345 0.0 0.8 273752 8828 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13346 0.0 0.8 273756 9028 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13347 0.0 0.8 273748 8924 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13350 0.3 0.9 274540 9484 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13352 0.0 0.8 273880 9108 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13359 0.0 0.9 274020 9328 ? S 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13361 0.0 0.8 273748 9084 ? R 02:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13362 0.0 0.5 272440 5540 ? R 02:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13363 0.1 0.8 273740 8760 ? R 02:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13364 0.0 0.7 273340 7584 ? S 02:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13366 0.0 0.8 273484 8580 ? S 02:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13367 0.2 0.8 273616 8804 ? S 02:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 13368 0.1 0.8 273488 8572 ? S 02:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
root 13370 0.0 0.0 85000 820 pts/0 R+ 02:53 0:00 grep httpd
(BTW: is it right that there are that many httpd processes? I've another site running on the server)
Thus i should be able to create directories via php or not? Why do i get this error even though the permissions are set to 777?
best regards
Zabrajin |
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11-24-2009, 04:48 AM
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#2
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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Hi, welcome to LQ!
Actually your snippet doesn't do anything for me;
with a <?php it creates the directory just fine.
Cheers,
Tink
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11-24-2009, 05:08 AM
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#3
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinkster
Hi, welcome to LQ!
Actually your snippet doesn't do anything for me;
with a <?php it creates the directory just fine.
Cheers,
Tink
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Hm maybe you've disabled php short tags? I've tried it with <?php ?>, but no difference for me.
Still says permission denied  |
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11-24-2009, 05:19 AM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Eelam
Distribution: Redhat, Solaris, Suse
Posts: 1,278
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Quote:
<?
echo substr(decoct( fileperms('.') ), 2);
mkdir("/var/www/html/default/test");
?>
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check who is owning this php script? if you want to create directory within /var/ww/html/default then this script should own by apache user. |
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11-24-2009, 05:30 AM
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#5
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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The permission for the script is as follwing
Quote:
ls -rtl
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 88 2009-11-24 04:25 test.php
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Since the webserver is running as the user apache this should be ok i think |
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11-24-2009, 05:33 AM
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#6
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Eelam
Distribution: Redhat, Solaris, Suse
Posts: 1,278
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it doesn't have execute permission (use 755 thats enough)
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11-24-2009, 05:37 AM
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#7
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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Changed permission to 755 but still the same error...
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11-24-2009, 05:40 AM
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#8
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Eelam
Distribution: Redhat, Solaris, Suse
Posts: 1,278
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is SELinux enabled?
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11-24-2009, 05:46 AM
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#9
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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i'm not sure but i don't think so. It's a VPS with a basic fc10 install. Can i check that somehow?
//edit: I've just run the script as root via the local php interpreter and then everything works fine. Anybody has a clue why it fails when i try it within the webserver?
Last edited by Zabrajin; 11-24-2009 at 08:15 AM.
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11-24-2009, 11:52 AM
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#10
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Member
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Russia
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
Posts: 399
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PHP safe mode is on?
this just looks extremely stupid to me: it must work under even 0700 with user "apache". copy your phpinfo() outputs.
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upd: try to su to "apache" and cd to that directory then mkdir test there.
Last edited by Web31337; 11-24-2009 at 11:54 AM.
Reason: su
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11-24-2009, 05:15 PM
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#11
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Web31337
PHP safe mode is on?
this just looks extremely stupid to me: it must work under even 0700 with user "apache". copy your phpinfo() outputs.
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upd: try to su to "apache" and cd to that directory then mkdir test there.
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i can't su to apache...
Code:
su apache
This account is currently not available.
//edit... removed php info link xD
Last edited by Zabrajin; 11-25-2009 at 03:02 AM.
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11-24-2009, 05:21 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Scientific Linux, Debian, Fedora
Posts: 3,935
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Zabrajin
i'm not sure but i don't think so. It's a VPS with a basic fc10 install. Can i check that somehow?
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Code:
$ /usr/sbin/getenforce
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11-24-2009, 08:03 PM
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#13
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Member
Registered: Jun 2008
Posts: 405
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zabrajin
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If you look at the info in /etc/passwd (if you need to modify don't do it directly, use a program or at least vipw) you will see that the user apache may not have a shell, a home and/or a password which will prevent it from being used as a regular user. You could try to edit in a shell and use the passwd command to give a password and then try what Web suggested (back up your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files and restore them after you're done this test). |
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11-24-2009, 10:14 PM
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#14
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Member
Registered: Sep 2009
Posts: 196
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...
Last edited by Smartpatrol; 03-11-2010 at 10:50 PM.
Reason: verbage
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11-24-2009, 10:33 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Hyderabad, India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,191
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You must have enabled SELinux, trying checking that first.
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