move_uploaded_file gives “failed to open stream: Permission denied ” error after all configurations i did

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I keep getting this error when trying to configure the upload directory with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3 on CentOS. In php.ini: upload_tmp_dir = /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/ In httpd.conf: Directory /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/> Options -Indexes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/html/mysite/images/> Options -Indexes </Directory> CentOS directory permissions: drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 10:01 images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:54 tmp_file_upload No matter what I do, I keep getting this error from PHP when I upload the file: Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/robot.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/mysite/process.php on line 78 Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpsKD2Qm' to 'images/robot.jpg' in /var/www/html/mysite/process.php on line 78 As you can see it never did take the configuration from the php.ini file regarding the upload file. What am I doing wrong here? php linux apache upload shareimprove this question edited Nov 12 '11 at 14:18 user212218 asked Nov 12 '11 at 10:27 user63898 7,76932141300

775? Maybe your server is running as nobody. Only root can write in this case (your "images" permissions)... – xfix Nov 12 '11 at 10:34 what does it means ? how can i change it ? – user63898 Nov 12 '11 at 11:16 add a comment

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This is because images and tmp_file_upload are only writable by root user. For upload to work we need to make the owner of those folders same as httpd process owner OR make them globally writable (bad practice). Check apache process owner: $ps aux | grep httpd. The first column will be the owner typically it will be nobody Change the owner of images and tmp_file_upload to be become nobody or whatever the owner you found in step 1. $sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/images/ $sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/ Chmod images and tmp_file_upload now to be writable by the owner, if needed [Seems you already have this in place]. Mentioned in @Dmitry Teplyakov answer. $ sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/mysite/images/ $ sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/mysite/tmp_file_upload/ For more details why this behavior happend, check the manual http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-tmp-dir , note that it also talking about open_basedir directive.