Cron job and folders permissions - permission denied

Question

I have a folder above the webroot that is used to temporarily store user files generated by a php web application. The files may, for example, be PDF\'s that are going to be

Answer 1

It depends on which user you have defined the cronjob.

If you're root (not recommended) it should work. If you're the web-user (e.g. www-data on ubuntu) it should work as well.

sudo su - www-data
crontab -e