The problem is that your webserver is not running as "you"...it's
running under a common user (probably nobody or apache) and that user
does not--and cannot--have access to your folder for security reasons.
You can try creating the directory through ftp via PHP.
Marco
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 21:11, Edward Peloke wrote:
> I have been using the mkdir function sucessfully on my windows test machine, but
>when I uploaded my pages to my hosting server (which is linux) I get a permission
>error when the mkdir function is called. I know I can create directories because I
>can do it fine when I am using ws-ftp uploading pages...any ideas? Here is the mkdir
>call..
>
> mkdir("$uname",0777);
>
> Thanks,
> Eddie
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