[urgent] Can't upload files. Access Denied.

hamidych · 09-30-2009, 01:24 AM

Hello guys,

I am having a problem with my fresh RedHat installation.
I have configured PHP, Apache, MySQL, etc. My web applications run fine. The only problem is: whenever I try to upload a file as an attachments in any of my web applications, it gives me a PHP error: access denied.

I already went extreme and granted 777 permissions on my /var/www/html directory. I have as well made apache:apache owner of that folder. I don't know what else to do.

So current situation is:
apache:apache is owner of the directory
permissions are set as drwxrwxrwx (777)
I still can not upload any attachments to that directory

Please help.

foodown · 09-30-2009, 01:27 AM

Apache usually runs as nobody.

When you do a 'ps aufx' who owns the running httpd processes?

If it is running as nobody you can change this in httpd.conf

hamidych · 09-30-2009, 01:32 AM

Code:

apache   32709  0.0  0.4  39372 19092 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32710  0.0  0.5  42188 21532 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32711  0.0  0.4  38848 18144 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32712  0.0  0.4  38868 17920 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32713  0.0  0.4  38748 17812 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32714  0.0  0.4  38856 17944 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32715  0.0  0.4  39372 19208 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   32716  0.0  0.5  42180 21480 ?        S    10:04   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd

rigor · 09-30-2009, 01:39 AM

It may very un-likely, but I have to ask just to eliminate the possibility, the directory to which you're trying to upload, is it NFS mounted, or accessed through a symbolic link?

Another possibility is an access restriction that's imposed by Apache's functionality based on the way it's configured.

But to get a better idea of the context in which youre' working, are you working with Apache 1 or 2?

Is /var/www/html your doc root, and are you trying
to upload to that?

hamidych · 09-30-2009, 01:43 AM

It's Apache 2

/var/www/html is the home dir and I am uploading to that

that directory is on local internal hard drive, not on some shared storage (if I got you correct)

hamidych · 09-30-2009, 01:53 AM

I meant doc root by home dir...

foodown · 09-30-2009, 02:24 AM

Could we see the PHP code snippet which is generating the actual error?

hamidych · 09-30-2009, 04:22 AM

Code:

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/html/careers.amsi.ae/incs/functions.php on line 32

Warning: move_uploaded_file(../uploads/Passport1/1/Path.inf) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/careers.amsi.ae/incs/functions.php on line 35

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpXCOnfW' to '../uploads/Passport1/1/Path.inf' in /var/www/html/careers.amsi.ae/incs/functions.php on line 35

chrism01 · 09-30-2009, 08:47 PM

Interesting error msgs, but we still want to see the php code...