Wordpress: How To Allow httpd to write to /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

[Robert L Cochran]

On 09/09/2009 10:37 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I installed Wordpress 2.8.3 on Fedora 11 and attempted to upload a 
> photo to the directory 
> /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/, but failed even 
> though my Wordpress "author" role permits file uploads. Wordpress uses 
> php for scripting. I suspected that I had set file permissions 
> incorrectly. Here are the permissions on /usr:
>
> drwxrwxr-x.  16 root apache  4096 2009-04-12 19:05 usr
>
> I ran `setsebool`:
>
> [root at deafeng3 /]# setsebool -P allow_httpd_anon_write=1
> [root at deafeng3 /]# service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
>
>
> I wrote a php script to see if it can move a single file just to 
> /usr/. Here is the error message that appears in 
> /var/log/httpd/error_log:
>
> [Wed Sep 09 22:25:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  
> move_uploaded_file(/usr/Cochran.jpg) [<a 
> href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: 
> failed to open stream: Permission denied in 
> /var/www/html/testuploads.php on line 35, referer: 
> http://localhost/testuploads.php
> [Wed Sep 09 22:25:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  
> move_uploaded_file() [<a 
> href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: 
> Unable to move '/tmp/phpJFMNbS' to '/usr/Cochran.jpg' in 
> /var/www/html/testuploads.php on line 35, referer: 
> http://localhost/testuploads.php
>
>
> But I still can't write to /usr. If I can't write to that, how can I 
> continue down the file hierarchy to write to the true target directory 
> of /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/*? That is to say, the 
> uploads directory and every subdirectory under it should be writable 
> by httpd.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cochran
>

I should have added: I am the one who made /usr group-owned by apache 
and then set the group permissions to rwx. In fact I've done quite a lot 
of fooling with file permissions in /usr/share/wordpress/*.

Bob