Permission problem with Wordpress

Datakraft · 06-15-2009, 10:11 AM

Hi!

Code:

sudo chmod -R 755 /data/nissadalen

This will make the whole directory writable for the user, i think. But when im trying to run the WordPress installation i got this error message

Code:

Sorry, I can't write to the directory. You'll have to either change the permissions on your WordPress directory or create your wp-config.php manually.

Why?

rweaver · 06-15-2009, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Datakraft

Hi!

Code:

sudo chmod -R 755 /data/nissadalen

This will make the whole directory writable for the user, i think. But when im trying to run the WordPress installation i got this error message

Code:

Sorry, I can't write to the directory. You'll have to either change the permissions on your WordPress directory or create your wp-config.php manually.

Why?

Depends on the owner and if you're using the correct location.

755 is read, write, execute for owner, read and execute for group and everyone. So unless the webserver is running as the owner of the files it won't be able to write.

Really files shouldn't be 755, they should be 644 for the same effective permissions.

Datakraft · 06-16-2009, 01:08 AM

Hello again!
How do I do if there are virtual users?
The point is that this server will act web host, and that users should not need to fuss with a lot of rights when they are uploading files via FTP and run problem-free PHP in the browser, such as WordPress.

How do I do for the user to the full rights to

Code:

/data/nissadalen

?

rweaver · 06-16-2009, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Datakraft

Hello again!
How do I do if there are virtual users?
The point is that this server will act web host, and that users should not need to fuss with a lot of rights when they are uploading files via FTP and run problem-free PHP in the browser, such as WordPress.

How do I do for the user to the full rights to

Code:

/data/nissadalen

?

Virtual users can mean a lot of things, what do you mean in particular?

Datakraft · 06-17-2009, 03:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

Virtual users can mean a lot of things, what do you mean in particular?

vsftpd with MySQL authenticate.

peonuser · 06-17-2009, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Datakraft

vsftpd with MySQL authenticate.

When setting up a web directory you usually have to do both a chown and a chmod recursively.

EricTRA · 06-17-2009, 03:38 AM

Hi there,

I'm using WordPress also in our company and you should check to see if the webuser is the owner of that directory. All work in WordPress gets done using that particular webuser.
Directory rights on my system are set to 755 and owned by the webuser:webgroup profile.
File rights are set to 644 and also owned by the webuser:webgroup profile.

And everything works like a charm.

Datakraft · 06-24-2009, 04:06 AM

Hi again!
I have discover how i can solve this. I need these users www-data and vsftpd to access the directory /data/nissadalen but i dont know how to do this.

How do i do this?