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Richard Lundberg	Saturday 21 August 2010 2:22:10 am Hi, after many happy years running EzPublish on Ununtu, I have a new server with CentOs. Previously on install, there would be warnings to change permissions and ownership on autoload extension settings var to www-data. On this installation, no warnings so all assumed OK. But when I try to import packages, I get file permission errors. So I have changed the ownership of the directories to apache (www-data does not exist on CentOs) and set the permissions exactly as I had them on my old Ubuntu installations. Still and error saying that the web server cannot modify a file in the VAR directory. This is 4.3 running on CentOs with PHP 5.3 and php-xml is installed ( a possible cause of package install problems on CentOs according to other threads) Any ideas. Is apache the right user? www.peakm3.com
Greg McAvoy-Jensen	Saturday 21 August 2010 10:09:52 am Richard, I love the mountains on your company's website. Is your CentOS running SELinux? If so perhaps the context needs to be set. You can check with: $ ls --context I generally run a command like this: $ sudo chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /home/myuser/www Granite Horizon, Certified Developer of eZ Publish Web Solutions Provider of the SaaS Solution Granite Horizon In The Cloud \| http://granitehorizon.com/cloud http://granitehorizon.com \| +1 916 647 6350 \| California USA \| @granitegreg Blog: http://granitehorizon.com/blog
Richard Lundberg	Sunday 22 August 2010 6:56:23 am Just the view from the office :-) good call, but alas not the prob. Checked the status and SELinux. appears to be disabled. thanks anyway.. www.peakm3.com

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Richard Lundberg

Saturday 21 August 2010 2:22:10 am

Hi, after many happy years running EzPublish on Ununtu, I have a new server with CentOs.

Previously on install, there would be warnings to change permissions and ownership on autoload extension settings var to www-data.

On this installation, no warnings so all assumed OK. But when I try to import packages, I get file permission errors.

So I have changed the ownership of the directories to apache (www-data does not exist on CentOs) and set the permissions exactly as I had them on my old Ubuntu installations. Still and error saying that the web server cannot modify a file in the VAR directory.

This is 4.3 running on CentOs with PHP 5.3 and php-xml is installed ( a possible cause of package install problems on CentOs according to other threads)

Any ideas. Is apache the right user?

www.peakm3.com

Greg McAvoy-Jensen

Saturday 21 August 2010 10:09:52 am

Richard,

I love the mountains on your company's website.

Is your CentOS running SELinux? If so perhaps the context needs to be set. You can check with:

$ ls --context

I generally run a command like this:

$ sudo chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /home/myuser/www

Granite Horizon, Certified Developer of eZ Publish Web Solutions
Provider of the SaaS Solution Granite Horizon In The Cloud | http://granitehorizon.com/cloud
http://granitehorizon.com | +1 916 647 6350 | California USA | @granitegreg
Blog: http://granitehorizon.com/blog

Richard Lundberg

Sunday 22 August 2010 6:56:23 am

Just the view from the office :-)

good call, but alas not the prob. Checked the status and SELinux. appears to be disabled.

thanks anyway..

www.peakm3.com

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