Image upload directory

what permissions

[blind]

hey all wasnt sure where to post this but i have just got a simple PHP script which uploads an image to a folder. But it only works when the image folder is set to 777 else permission denied. how do i make it so the folder can be set to 755 or 744 and still be able to upload images to that directory. server is apache on unix

[vincevincevince]

is php shared between muliple accounts? i (think) it needs 575, or 557 if so (fuzzy memory) - because it's not acting as owner (if it was owner, all accounts would have same owner, and you could ftp into anyone's site...) i guess someone more savvy with this will help more

[bilalak]

You can not
it should be 777 because the Web server or PHP module would write to this directory and the web server run as 0777.

[blind]

isnt this a security risk though?

someone said
"it doesn't need to be 777, it can be 774 or whatever, as long as the group that apache is running as has write access"

[vincevincevince]

here's something - store the files in your database ;) kill 2 birds with 1 stone

[blind]

u can store images in a mySQL database?

[mat_bastian]

yes

search it in google, there is loads of instruction for it.

[blind]

cool cheers
ill look at doin that then sounds better

[vincevincevince]

storing images in the database is little different to storing any file, so find a file upload script

when you output, remember to set the correct content-type for your headers - this can be found as it uploads, so don't forget to record it :)

[jatar_k]

I wouldnt really store the actual images in the db just the path to where they live.

[blind]

yeah i had the path of the image stored in the db and the images in a images folder and this works great but i just wanted to know how to do it so the folder where the images get uploaded can be set to 755 rather then 777

[panic]

You can push the binary into a MySQL db, along with the file extension so that PHP knows what MIME type to use when getting the binary data from MySQL.

-panic