PHP: mkdir(): Permission denied

Question

I've php script that should create two new folders in "albums" and "pl". in "albums" apache can create a new folder but not in "pl", even though they have the same permissions. I can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

ls -Z /music
drwxrwxrwx. apache root system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 albums
drwxrwxrwx. apache root system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 pl

php

function createdir($dir) {
        if (!is_dir($dir)) {
            mkdir($dir);
                if (is_dir($dir)) {
                        echo "PASS<br />";
                }else{
                        echo "FAILED<br />";
                }

        }else{
                echo "The dir is there";
        }

}

createdir("/music/pl/07012013/");
createdir("/music/albums/06012013333333331111/");

su apache

su - apache -s /bin/bash
-bash-4.1$ mkdir /music/pl/06012013
mkdir: cannot create directory `/music/pl/06012013': Permission denied

Solution

Check out php's mkdir.

You'll need to set recursive to true, so try something like mkdir($dir,0700,true)

Comments

[u8sand]

how about trying to run as apache and try to make a directory (via commandline). 'su apache' That way you can get better error response and diagnose the permissions issue you may have.

[Jorge Orpinel Pérez]

The user running the apache service probably doesn't have the right permissions.

[teslasimus]

didn't work ...