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Cosmin Grigoras
Cosmin Grigoras

Reputation: 51

ftp_put write outside home directory

I have the following folder structure on my remote site:

/home/John
/flowers

When I login using ftp_login, the active directory is set to /home/John. If I write:

ftp_put($conn_id, "tulip.jpg", "tulip.jpg")

the file ends up in the /home/John folder as expected.

However I want to upload it into the "flowers" directory. I tried two methods that didn't work:

  1. ftp_put($conn_id, "../../flowers/tulip.jpg", "tulip.jpg") but the file is still uploaded in /home/John
  2. I tried to use ftp_chdir as follows:

ftp_chdir($conn_id, '/flowers')

But it ends up in an error:

ftp_chdir(): /flowers: No such file or directory

If I have folders inside /home/John I can use ftp_chdir to change the active directory and point to them, but I cannot do anything outside the folder. Despite not being in the root directory, ftp_pwd($conn_id) returns '/' (I was expecting /home/John)

Logging in with Winscp I can access and write in the "flowers" folder, so there are no rights issues.

How can I do the same thing in PHP with ftp_put?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 105

Answers (1)

Cosmin Grigoras
Cosmin Grigoras

Reputation: 51

It turned out that user "John" could connect to that server in two ways: via FTP or via SFTP (using the SAME username and password in both cases). When connected via SFTP the root directory was '/' and so, the 'flowers' folder was accessible.

When connected via FTP, it was chrooted to /home/John and therefore it was impossible to move up.

Sadly for me, in winscp I was connecting using the SFTP connection, and therefore the adventure started :)

Upvotes: 1

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