Copy files from a user account to another with PHP on VPS (Cpanel,WHM)

Question

I need to create a script installer on a VPS with Cpanel api and WHM access (btw: hostgator), which will do the following: When user registers on my site - with my custom installer script), the script will create a CPanel account with WHM API. After that I'll need to copy a bunch of files to user's new directory from my main directory. for example:

• my script which should do the copy operation is in /home/[main reseller account]/public_html/register.php
• source files for copy operation are here /home/[main reseller account]/public_html/script_base
• I need to copy that into /home/[newly created user account]/public_html/

The problem is I have no permission to access /home/[newly created user account]/public_html/ from my script which is in the folder /home/[main reseller account]/public_html/script_base

I could use FTP and upload files to user's public_html one by one, by I would really want to avoid that if possible.

Any idea is appreciated, and thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

What is causing this permission issue? php open_basedir? In that case you can try setting in Apache:

php_admin_value open_basedir none

And that way you can access any folder using PHP.

You could also change (temporarily) the permissions of the new_user_account folder using chmod or chown from php.