Cron job and folders permissions - permission denied

Question

I have a folder above the webroot that is used to temporarily store user files generated by a php web application. The files may, for example, be PDF\'s that are going to be

Answer 1

Permission are given to user-group-everybody. That's what the 3 characters denote.

Your php script runs as a different user&group than the cron job, so they observe different permissions.

Check chown and chgrp, or try to run the cron job with the same user.