[thelist] PHP: mkdir and rmdir possible, but not chgrp, why?

[Dominique Paquin]

I posted a message last week on the php news group on this subject, and I
have searched for an answer meanwhile. So i am trying here since i did not
find the answer to my problem:

I use a web based application I am making and through this application I
create directories. I can create the directories with no problem using PHP
with full rights (777). The directories, then, needs to have their group
changed to something else and here is my problem,

I tried a chgrp (the php function) from php to change it as well as
exec('chgrp'...) or exec('chown' ...) and then I tried a system('chgrp'...)
and system('chown'...). All this to no success. Someone told me, on the
php.general list, that apache was runing as nobody:nobody, so it had no
rights to change
rights. We changed the user:group of apache and called it apache:apache.
then we re-tried all our experiences, to no avail. I am sure I am having all
the rights necessary because I can delete the directories I create with no
trouble.

Note: If I connect in console mode with the user apache, i can chown the
directory as I wish.

Any suggestion on how to change rights on directories would be appreciated.
(With PHP or any other solution)

Thanks in advance

Dominique Paquin
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