Hi, all -- I promise I'm not asking the same old question :-)
Our image gallery application takes a directory tree of images uploaded
by the user and then does all sorts of magic to make thumbnails, track
comments, and so on. The only thing owned by the user is the directory
tree and its contents; everything else is owned by the web server ID.
All of this works well until a user wants to change the name of a subtree
in the source directory; all of the 'nails are "lost" (since they're now
unrelated to the source tree, and they just hang around taking up space),
and even worse all of the comments are lost.
The problem, of course, is that the user can't rename the cache directory
and the web server can't rename the source directory.
Has anyone already solved this problem -- preferably without reeking too
terribly of a kludge? We've already thought of a script that the user
calls which renames the cache side and then says "OK, so *now* go and
rename the source side with ftp like you would anyway" but that's not
pretty by any stretch. I just can't get past the concept that we're
mixing user ID and web server ID and that you just can't.
Of course, if the same old question ("How do I have the web server do
things in a user way?") has finally been answered, please let me know ;-)
TIA & HAND
:-D
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