Dynamic File Permissions

[XXXconanXXX]

Okay, so here's the situation:

I have an image which I dynamically upload to from a Java servlet. I have a PHP script that uses mkdir() to make a directory on the site, which the servlet uploads the photos to. They upload fine, but when I go to view them on the site, they don't show? I can't view the file folder from a browser which is ideal, but either way I need to be able to view them from the site so the user can view the photos.

I've tried changing read/write permissions for the top-level directory from my server's cPanel, but still no go.

Any ideas? I hear the mkdir() permissions are ignored on Windows platforms, what does that mean? It's fine if the user can view the photo directory and download the images, but no matter how I tinker with the permissions server-side or in the script they're still unviewable. I tried even making the site directory read-only to everyone, and still no go.

 

[Ghan]

What user/group owns the pictures when they are uploaded? What file permissions are set on them? If you manually create a file in the same directory, can you view it?

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Technically all I'm doing is displaying photos from a photo directory when they log in to their gallery. The photo directories are dynamically created, so I created another directory to put them all in and set permission to read for user/group/world. When I call mkdir() I've got the permissions set to 0777. I tried going in and changing the permissions for the directories manually and still no luck.

 

[Ghan]

Who owns the files and the parent directories? Is the user under which the webserver runs able to access the directories from a shell?

 

[Magentix]

You could make a folder unreadable by world and use php's readfile() along with header() to output the images when someone's allowed to view them.