chmod question

[fouadk]

hi everyone

i have created a directory using the mkdir() in a php script...
i have created that directory in /home/username
this folder is owned by the group and user www-data
i am trying to change the ownership to anther user using chown() but it gives me permission denied...

how to overcome this???

please help

thanks in advance

[pbmods]

Heya, Fouad.

chown() has to be run with root permissions (http://php.net/chown). There is no way to do this from PHP unless you run Apache as root, which is not recommended.

[henryrhenryr]

I changed the default user and group in the apache configuration file - the server is just for testing so it doesn't matter (I hope!) - I got fed up of my scripts breaking because they weren't allowed.

There is a line in the apache2.conf

User ...
Group ...

I used my user and group.