Here's a tricky question... Summary: How do I get the FTP server and apache server to be able to modify the same files and directories?
I've got a set of PHP scripts that makes directories in a specific web accessable folder. The top directory is called 'FILES' and needs to belong to group 'nobody'. Apache creates more subdirectories inside of it, depending upon which project ID from the database was created. I've also got a client logging into FTP and uploading files into these subdirectories. I've got this much working so far. The problem comes when the project is deleted from the database. I want to remove all uploaded files and the directories. The problem is that the group doesn't 'stick', and the uploaded files look like this: -rw-r--r-- user user file1.txt I've tried various things, including making the directory sgid. The files always come up owned by 'user' and belonging to group 'user'. I did find that the ftp daemon, proftpd, has a place to alter user and group ids, but this didn't work either. Any ideas appreciated. I'm willing to try what should work again. Thanks, Rob -- Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++);
