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directory owner issue

I have a script that creates a directory using:
mkdir($dir,0777);
The script then uploads files to this directory.

However, it is not set to 777, but rather 755. This becomes an issue because when I'm using my ftp account I can't upload or change the permission of the directory. Meaning, that the mkdir/upload script works fine, but later in my GUI FTP I can't delete the directory or upload new files to it. Whenever I try to change the permission I get, "550 Could not change perms on MyDir: Operation not permitted "

NoiS

Seems a limitation of your host.
Try creating the dir by your FTP GUI with 0775 or 0765, So both, PHP and FTP can change the dir content.

phper

ASKER

I can create a 777 dir in my gui ftp which uses the domain's ftp account. The problem is that these directories that are created with mkdir are dynamic for the user. I don't want to be manually creating user directories. When a user signs up it creates a dir for them, they upload to the dir, I download the files then upload a new file to the dir.

NoiS

You can do the same thing with PHP using FTP funtcions.

<?php
// Connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect('ftp://localhost');
 
// login com o nome de usuário e senha
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
 
// confere a conexão
if ($conn_id && $login_result) {
  // Creating the dir
  if (ftp_mkdir($conn_id, $dir)) {
    echo "successfully created $dir\n";
  } else {
    echo "There was a problem while creating $dir\n";
  }
 
   // Putting files
   if(!ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY)){
      echo "There was a problem while putting $source_file\n";
   }
 
  // Colse connection
  ftp_close($conn_id);
}

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phper

ASKER

It seems that we are getting farther from my original question. The reason using php-ftp will not work is because I'm trying to use a local bat file to ftp to the directory created with mkdir.

Also, your comment, "Seems a limitation of your host." I have a vps with full root access.

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