i never worked with ubuntu before so i am trying to create a function which writes pdf files to the folder, i am getting permissions error but i am not sure if it is the right way of doing it here is my code application.imagesPath = "/projects/files/images/openimages/";

public any function writepdf(required pdfFile="") {
		var sourcefile="#arguments.pdffile#";
		var n = 'a.pdf';
		var dir = application.imagesPath & n;
		cfpdf(action="write",source="#sourcefile#",destination="#dir#",overwrite="yes");
		return n;
	}
i am getting Permission denied error

/projects/files/images/openimages/

seems unlikely as a dir on Ubuntu. It's expecting a fully qualified file system path yeah? So like

/var/tmp/whatevs

. Is

projects

a CF mapping, and are you hoping CF will expand it out? Do you know that works? Or is

projects

a subdir of your webroot?

its a sub directory

right, so like I said... It's expecting a fully qualified file system path. The whole path.

ok, let me see if that works

You can also

expandPath('/projects/files/images/openimages')

As Adam said I was able to do it with fully qualified url