Hello,

Apache is running as user nobody by default on dedicated servers with cPanel. So, you would need to ensure that nobody has write permission on the directory where you want to put the file.

Hi,

Login as root and type in the directory where files will go:

ls -al

You might see the following:

drwxr-xr-x   3 username  username    512 Sep  2 17:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  40 username  username  1024 Aug 29 06:10 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 username  username      0 Aug 27 01:07 file

The column at the beginning of each line is the file permissions (for the owner, the group, and everyone). The fist line shows the permissions for your current folder wich permissions will be set.

There are a few ways how to change folder permissions to allow php scripts to create files, I always recommend to change the group to which the folder belongs to and give the group write privileges to that directory:

chown username:nobody .
chmod g+w .

Now do "ls -l" again. The output should be like:

drwxrwxr-x   3 username  nobody    512 Sep  2 17:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  40 username  username  1024 Aug 29 06:10 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 username  username      0 Aug 27 01:07 file

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

I am not sure that there is a big difference between those two ways of the problem solving because in both cases you will create a potential security hole by allowing php scripts to put files in a directory. Can I ask you why do you need this capability?

In order to configure suPHP on your server you might ask systems administrators to do  this by email to dedicated@lunarpages.com as you have opted the Managed addon during the sign up process.