Problems with installation..

Thursday 30 March 2006 11:57:16 am

I installeded News sitedesign and everything worked fine. Then I added the forum package. Uploaded it through the backend/admin system. My problem is that I can not change any files which are from this package. Not edit files or remove files because the owner is the www apache user, and not my accountname user as on the other files and directories.

drwxrwsrwx 6 myaccount myaccount 4096 Mar 24 12:16 admin/
drwxrwsrwx 6 myaccount myaccount 4096 Mar 24 12:16 base/
drwxrwsrwx 6 www myaccount 4096 Mar 29 00:09 forum/
drwxrwsrwx 7 myaccount myaccount 4096 Mar 24 12:16 standard/

and

drwxrwsrwx 4 www myaccount 4096 Mar 29 00:08 forum/
drwxrwxrwx 2 myaccount myaccount 4096 Mar 24 12:19 storage/

and under forum/
drwxrwsrwx 5 www myaccount 4096 Mar 29 22:10 storage/

I really need to update files under the forum/storage, to be able to change design.
Why has this package been set up through the admin with www apache user and not myaccount user as the other ez files?

Thursday 30 March 2006 3:03:06 pm

When eZ runs, the server (Apache or IIS) is the user. You'll see nobody, or apache or in your case www as the owner of the file.

Here are some ideas:

Change the forum directory privileges to <b>chmod -R 777 forum</b> (it looks like the sticky bit is set on the existing one). You can use ftp to change permissions, too.

Try moving the forum directory to see if that changes ownership to you (<b>mv forum new_forum</b> and then <b>mv new_forum forum</b>).

If that doesn't work, delete the forum and create the directory on the command line (<b>mkdir forum</b>) or with ftp.

Once the forum directory is created, with 777 for permissions, you should be able to use eZ to manage it.