mkdir problems

[fouadk]

hi everyone....

i am trying to create a folder in my home directory but that ain't working due to permission restriction

my code looks like the following:

<?php
$path = "/home/fouad/testing";
if(mkdir($path,700,TRUE)) {print "success."; }else {print "failure.";}
?>

and my output is the following:

 Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/test2.php on line 3 
failure.

i know it is related to permissions but i dunno how to fix that....

please help

thanks in advance

[pbmods]

Heya, Fouad.

Make sure you have write permissions in /home/fouad.

[fouadk]

write permissions to which users??? user of php ??? user of apache ????
which user???

thanks

[pbmods]

PHP runs as whatever User/group that Apache does, so as long as the directory is writable to Apache, it will be writable to PHP.

If Apache can read from the directory, you simply need to add write permissions.

Try each the following commands in this order until you get it working:
[code=sh]
chmod 755 /home/fouad
chmod 775 /home/fouad
chmod 777 /home/fouad
[/code]

The last one is the least secure, but is guaranteed to work.