How do I give addmin permission to PHP user/permission to write to filesystem on Ubuntu 14 server?
Hi,
When joomla or wordpress try to write to the filesystem, which user do they use?
Is it possible to give that user admin permissions?
I did a test on my MAIN SERVER (ubuntu 14.04 x64 with php 5.5.9) and on page 3 of this application I got one error:
PHP cannot write to filesystem: http://www.mismatched.be/i
I also use two shared hosting servers, one in the US and on in Italy and the same test does not give that error:
http://www.associazionecul
and
http://just.bo/index.php?s
How is it that automatically on those servers when I use Joomla or Wordpress the CMS installation software can write to .htaccess, configuration.php and wp-config.php files and tmp, cache, logs folders without any problems and on my I get errors?
On my ubuntu MAIN SERVER server (with the php permissions problem) I manually upload joomla.zip or wordpress.zip and unzip them and then I use the following command to give the permissions:
for the directories
sudo find /site_installation_folder/
for files only
sudo find /site_installation_folder/
What am I doing wrong and how to enable the right permissions so that I don't have to set 777 chmod permissions on any folder?
thanks in advance
When joomla or wordpress try to write to the filesystem, which user do they use?
Is it possible to give that user admin permissions?
I did a test on my MAIN SERVER (ubuntu 14.04 x64 with php 5.5.9) and on page 3 of this application I got one error:
PHP cannot write to filesystem: http://www.mismatched.be/i
I also use two shared hosting servers, one in the US and on in Italy and the same test does not give that error:
http://www.associazionecul
and
http://just.bo/index.php?s
How is it that automatically on those servers when I use Joomla or Wordpress the CMS installation software can write to .htaccess, configuration.php and wp-config.php files and tmp, cache, logs folders without any problems and on my I get errors?
On my ubuntu MAIN SERVER server (with the php permissions problem) I manually upload joomla.zip or wordpress.zip and unzip them and then I use the following command to give the permissions:
for the directories
sudo find /site_installation_folder/
for files only
sudo find /site_installation_folder/
What am I doing wrong and how to enable the right permissions so that I don't have to set 777 chmod permissions on any folder?
thanks in advance
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ah thanks David will try right away :)
Yes, that how to change the user.group. Then set your permissions the same way using chmod
(sudo chmod -R 550 /path_to_folder/)
And on the certain files that need apache to write -
(sudo chmod 660 /path_to_folder/file.ext)
Do you understand what each integer's place means in the chmod permissions?
(sudo chmod -R 550 /path_to_folder/)
And on the certain files that need apache to write -
(sudo chmod 660 /path_to_folder/file.ext)
Do you understand what each integer's place means in the chmod permissions?
ASKER
works! thanks!
I changed the permissions on the entire folder and everything works.
By the way, when I use SCP now to connect, my user "lupocatttivo" cannot delete, rename etc. files that are owned by www-data. Is it possible to add my user "lupocatttivo" to the www-data group as well as the admin group (which it already is). Is this possible?
thanks again
I changed the permissions on the entire folder and everything works.
By the way, when I use SCP now to connect, my user "lupocatttivo" cannot delete, rename etc. files that are owned by www-data. Is it possible to add my user "lupocatttivo" to the www-data group as well as the admin group (which it already is). Is this possible?
thanks again
Yes.
Yes, you can do that, or just use sudo. Sudo is safer.
Every user also has a "group", so you can change owner to like apache.lupocatttivo, and give yourself either r+w (6) or rwx (7), So for apache.lupocattivo, 570 would give apache read, your group "lupocatttivo" rwx, and all others nothing.
In the permissions, say 660, the first 6 is for "user", second 6 is for "group", and last 0 is "all others".
Apache will work correctly if it's got appropriate permissions as either user or group. You don't have to have it as both user and group, that's just a common method.
Every user also has a "group", so you can change owner to like apache.lupocatttivo, and give yourself either r+w (6) or rwx (7), So for apache.lupocattivo, 570 would give apache read, your group "lupocatttivo" rwx, and all others nothing.
In the permissions, say 660, the first 6 is for "user", second 6 is for "group", and last 0 is "all others".
Apache will work correctly if it's got appropriate permissions as either user or group. You don't have to have it as both user and group, that's just a common method.
ASKER
Do I change the owner for a CMS folder using:
sudo chown -R apache:apche /path_to_folder/
thanks