Folder Permisions

[Karl Blessing]

I'm having some troble getting my web hosting provider to get some permisions set, I have here pretty much an email dialog going.


Hello,
All of the permission for the upload directory have been set properly.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us again.


Sincerely,
Hostway Support Staff


[Then I found out they put Read/Write/Delete without Script/Execute permision on /Upload instead of /Upload/Files emailed them back about this]


Hello,
The permission and settings have been changed as you have requested.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us again.


Sincerely,
Hostway Support Staff


[I'm developing it this afternoon, and it turns out they have all the permisions correct, except for a single thing, any subfolders under the /Upload/files/ do not rescursively carry the same permisions as /files as a result I cannot write to it when saving member files in their own subdirectories. emailed them back with this]


I noticed the /Upload/files directory is now set to write, but I discovered
that this permision is not rescursive, I programatically created a
subfolder, but I am unable to write to this subfolder, is is possible to
have the Read/Write/Delete permision from /files be rescursive to all
subfolders under it?

Because the SuFileUpload object is unable to write to a subfolder created
under that writible directory.

Thanks

-Karl Blessing


[They replied with this]


Dear Valued Customer,

We have submitted your message to our second-level support staff for
consultation on the matter. We will get back to you shortly with a response.




If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us again.


Sincerely,
Hostway Support Staff


In my experience any time it goes to Second level support, there is a very high chance I wont hear from them again, so I post this here, asking for you opinion, such as for example, if I am going to need to tell them how to do this themselves, as I have no direct access to the machines.

Thanks. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[jagilman]

Hey Karl, I have a similar need. My customers need to be able to upload files. I wanted to be able to create folders for them also. The problem I seem to be running into is keeping the "upload" folder private to prevent any user from creating a web folder link to the folder.

I hope this makes sense.

Do you have any input regarding this?

John John A. Gilman
gms@uslink.net