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

[Robert L Cochran]

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@deafeng3 /]# setsebool -P allow_httpd_anon_write=1
[root@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