I am getting the error
fopen(/var/www/photos/testphoto.jpg): failed to open stream: Permission denied
when PHP is attempting to write a file to /var/www/photos, whose directory permissions are
drwxrwsr-x 3 root www-pub 4096 Oct 11 01:46 photos
I have already added apache2 user www-data to the group www-pub, why is it still unable to write files to the directory unless I chmod 777 /var/www/photos?
Update
As suggested by Laurentiu Roescu, I did a chmod 777 photos and let PHP write the file. Here's the output of ls -la
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-pub 34777 Oct 11 02:12 testphoto.jpg
Best Answer
Do a chmod 777 on folder and create a file. Then please give the output of ls -la on that file.