File Permissions: Who are the user, group, and others on my web server? What perms should i use for uploaded files, php files, etc.?

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I am using cPanel with apache 2 and php 5.2. I have a file upload script, which currently puts the uploaded files in a directory with 0777 perms and the file itself also has 0777 perms. this is because with other perms, i would be thrown an "Invalid Access" error.

so, what perms should i use so that the files are secure, but can still be accessed when a user wants to download them via my download script?

Well, seeing that with permissions any different from 0777 you get the "Invalid Access" error, you don't really have much of a choice, do you? But maybe there is something you could do. Do you control the server? — wolfgangsz, Aug 13 '10 at 16:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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Are you the SysAdmin of this server?

If you are then I have just answered a very similar question here

Apache DSO file permissions 777

If not you need to question if you're happy to have you site on this server at all.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Aug 13 '10 at 23:12

Richard Holloway

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File Permissions: Who are the user, group, and others on my web server? What perms should i use for uploaded files, php files, etc.?

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