move_uploaded_file gives “failed to open stream: Permission denied” error

Question

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/ht         


        

Answer 1

This problem happens when the apache user (www-data) does not have permission to write in the folder. To solver this problem you need to put the user inside the group www-data.

I just made this:

Execute this php code to discover the user used by apache. After, execute the commands in the terminal:

user@machine:/# cd /var/www/html

user@machine:/var/www/html# ls -l

It will return something like this:

total of files

drwxr-xr-x 7 user group size date folder

I kept the user but changed the group to www-data

chown -R user:www-data yourprojectfoldername

chmod 775 yourprojectfoldername