dramamyth

My guess would be that the 'nobody' account (ie. the default account web scripts run as) doesn't have write permission on the directory. Nor should it. You're subject line implies that you're using SSH - your code snippet implies that you're not. You should be. You should log into your server with SSH with an account that does have write access (presumably the same as you use to upload files) and do stuff with that. To use SSH in your PHP app check out phpseclib, a pure PHP SSH implementation.