Gary Mort wrote:
I have a complex little install script that creates directories and
subdirectories and copies files.
It keeps failing on one providers server.
I boiled down the install script problems to the fact that it cannot
create a subdirectory after creating a directory.
I lost some hair over the same issue when trying to hack FsckEditor with
image upload into a clients website hosted at hosting4less.com
The details are kind of vague, but I remember it having something to do
a php SAFE MODE restriction on mkdir and the fact that the web server
was running as a different user than that owned by the user. I could
create a directory, but not set the attributes for that directory. That
prevented creating any futher subdirectories.
I tried all sorts of hacks to circumvent this, but with no satisfactory
results. The ISP does not provide shell access but I was able to get
around the one-deep restriction by having the php script "ftp" into the
server and do mkdir's. However, the directories were then owned by the
user and not writable by the web server. Their ftp server restricted
chowning or chmoding those to be world writable, so in the end, there
was no way I could write files into the directories I created.
Good luck with a solution. I couldn't find one.
~Rolan
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