How can I give a program writing access to a directory?

Question

There's a program called imagemagick that can edit images.

It can save files to my home folder with out issues.

It won't save images to a folder /var/www/thumb_nails/

edit: it does work if I execute the script I have the command in. It just wont work when apache2 uses the script... very strange...

The reason it doesn't work specifically when apache2 runs the script is that apache2 runs as a special user account, for security reasons. [Misc]'s answer changes the directory's ownership to www-data to address this. — Eliah Kagan, May 29 '12 at 19:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '12 at 18:49

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You need to change the unix permissions on the folder.

Either you set it to be owned by www-data, with :

chown www-data /var/www/thumb_nails/
chmod u+w /var/www/thumb_nails/

Or you use ACL ( a more complete permission system ) to let the user www-data ( ie, the user that apache is using ) write there

setfacl -m u:www-data:rw /var/www/thumb_nails/

answered May 29 '12 at 18:49

Misc

THANK YOU!... for some reason I can't mark this as answered. I have to wait five minutes. I'll come back in a bit – Isaac May 29 '12 at 18:56
you forgot to mark this as an answered – Albert221 Aug 31 '17 at 13:16

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