mkdir uid safemode problem

[Oziam]

Hope someone can help me!

I have an upload script that stores users files, it creates a dir using the users name which will store their uploads!

The problem is because I am on a shared host with safe mode ON i get an error when trying to upload to that directory via a form, the error says something like

SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 500 is not allowed to access /proc/uptime owned by uid 0 in ......

 

If I create a dir manually(FTP) it works fine! But I cannot obviously create a dir for each new user as the registration is automatic, so at the moment I have 1 common dir for all users to upload to, but this will eventually cause too much congestion and slow things down!

 

Any ideas! Thanks!!

[BlueSkyIS]

one idea: use php to ftp the files to the same server via server ip address or localhost? never tried it, just an idea.

[Oziam]

Great idea and it would work, but all ftp functions have been disabled!

[BlueSkyIS]

after you create the user directory, do you try to perform chmod() on it?

 

my understanding of safe mode is that you can still upload, but not to outside of your web root. of course, i may be wrong about that...

[Oziam]

Yes I do chmod the dir! my code is similar to below;

 

if (!is_dir($this->dir)){

mkdir($this->dir);

chmod($this->dir, 0777);

}

 

I have also tried; mkdir($this->dir, 0777); mkdir($this->dir, 1777); mkdir($this->dir, 4777);

 

and

 

if (!is_dir($this->dir)){

$oldumask = umask(0);

mkdir($this->dir, 0777);

umask($oldumask);

}

 

and I have even tried to change the uid to nobody!

 

posix_setgid(99);

posix_setuid(99);

 

also the dir is created inside the root e.g

 

root/usr_img/username/

[BlueSkyIS]

ay caramba, you've tried everything i would suggest. maybe someone else has an idea.

[DavidAM]

... The script whose uid is 500 is not allowed to access /proc/uptime owned by uid 0 in ......

 

Are you sure that you are specifying the directory name correctly?  That error message indicates you are trying to access /proc/uptime which is owned by root.

[Oziam]

Actually proc/uptime is just an example error message from another post, the actual path is the path to the dir.