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phppermissionsubuntu-16.04
Caio Favero
Caio Favero

Reputation: 2318

PHP permission denied for managing files

I have the following test page

mkdir('test');

$f = fopen('test.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($f, 'gibberish');
fclose($f);

unlink('test2.txt');

Nothing of that happens and I get the following error messages on erro.log

PHP Warning:  mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/html/test.php on line 5
PHP Warning:  fopen(test.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/test.php on line 7
PHP Warning:  fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/html/test.php on line 8
PHP Warning:  fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/html/test.php on line 9
PHP Warning:  fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/html/test.php on line 10
PHP Warning:  unlink(teste2.txt): Permission denied in /var/www/html/test.php on line 12

I can clearly see that I'm having permission issues, but I have no ideia what sort of permission it is and how do I even set that kind of permission.

Using git or terminal I can create/delete/chmod all files and directories without a problem. It's just PHP that can't.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2089

Answers (1)

Ralph Melhem
Ralph Melhem

Reputation: 757

ssh using your terminal and, first, change the files owner to apache group

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

Next allow all members of this group to read and write files

chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html/

This should fix your issue. I strongly suggest you read more about permissions in ubuntu though

Upvotes: 3

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