Upload image to Windows Server

[cgielty]

I am trying (without any success so far) to write a script that has a form for uploading an image to the server. In this case, it is a Windows server.

In the past I have been able to get around the virtual server problem on a NIX server by using mkdir() to create a new directory with chmod 0777, copying the image to the new directory and them chmod the new directory back to 0755.

However, this is not working on the Windows server. I cannot create a new directory, nor can I copy the image to an existing directory. In both cases I get a "Permission denied" error.

Can anybody help?

[Cam]

Is this your own server or hosting somewhere?

[cgielty]

It is a webhost's server.

(On my own Windows machine I can get the script to run by manually setting the file permissions on the folder. However, I was hoping there is a solution to the file permission problem that can be accomplished inside the PHP script).

[Cam]

I'm a little confused. I have no knowledge of the networking side of Win32 but I don't need to change any permissions on my WinXP Pro machine here to do any file system work.

[Jeff Lange]

Are you using FAT32 or NTFS?

[cgielty]

DJ P,

I, too, am no Windows expert. However, to make a folder writable to PHP on my machine, I have to right click on the folder, select Security, and give "Everyone" Full Control.

... In the meantime, I've decided to store the images in the database. In the past, I've never been sure how to retrieve images from the database for display in a page, so I've always stored uploaded images on the server. However, I have it figured out now, so I'm going to store the images in the database. In this case, the images are small and there is not going to be too many, so I think this should work fine.

Anyway, thanks for the responses.

[Jeff Lange]

With FAT32, everyone has permission to access/modify files

With NTFS, there are permissions similar to *nix chmod permissions.

[Cam]

Well I use FAT32 so I guess that's where I can do anything/everything