here did some reading lol from comments at http://ca.php.net/mkdir " Han Van den Hoof 09-Nov-2003 01:28 If you're on a shared *nix server, a directory created through mkdir() will not be assigned to you, but to the user that your host's server or php process is running under, usually 'nobody', 'apache' or 'httpd'. In practice, this means that you can create directories, even add files to them, but you can't delete the directory or its contents nor change permissions. It is therefore advised to create directories through PHP's FTP API. Here's a function I wrote: <?php // create directory through FTP connection function FtpMkdir($path, $newDir) { $server='ftp.yourserver.com'; // ftp server $connection = ftp_connect($server); // connection // login to ftp server $user = "me"; $pass = "password"; $result = ftp_login($connection, $user, $pass); // check if connection was made if ((!$connection) || (!$result)) { return false; exit(); } else { ftp_chdir($connection, $path); // go to destination dir if(ftp_mkdir($connection,$newDir)) { // create directory return $newDir; } else { return false; } ftp_close($conn_id); // close connection } } ?> Hope this comes in handy for someone. "