My_Uploads module to work? possible?

New Member Joined: Sep 25, 2003 Posts: 21

Hello, I recently moved my site to a host and now everything is working fine.. except the My_Uploads module which my members enjoy using doesn't work. What happens is that they can upload but since the ownership of the file is user apache I cannot delete it with ftp or using the delete function in My_Uploads. I emailed the host about this and they said that php uses apache as the user so i would have to use a perl script since that would allow deletion. Is there any way around this? I really like that module

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

If that were the case then everyone would be having that issue and I doubt that is the problem. I would challenge your host on it. Send me the link to get the file and I'll try it to see if it works for me.

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:23 pm

I forgot the site where I got this new version of it, but ill put it on my apache. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Also I noticed the same thing if you try to use avatar upload aswell as last night when I set up coppermine. I know nothing is wrong with the My_Uploads module just their permissions seem weird.

edit: forgot to mention coppermine gallery

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:30 am

Did you chmod the directories and files that are needed by the script?

My first host didn't want me running upload scripts without passing them through him first.

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:57 pm

Yes I did.. the thing is the script creates its own directories if needed and what happens is it can upload just fine but the upload can't be deleted by or the uploader. If I check with my ftp client then the owner of the file is apache rather then me. Host said because any php script will use that as the owner. Yet I can't delete files owned by apache.