composer: composer.json is not writable

Oldy · 08-24-2020, 07:24 AM

Hi there, I have Ubuntu/VPS, nginx, mariadb, /var/www/html/test.com/composer.json: permission=755, chown/chgrp=www-data/www-data

oldy: composer update/upgrade

Code:

Update symfony/polyfill-ctype (v1.17.0 => v1.18.1) : Update failed (Could not delete /vendor/symfony/polyfill-ctype/README.md)

In Filesystem.php line 217:
Could not delete /vendor/symfony/polyfill-ctype/README.md

oldy: composer require symfony/polyfill-ctype

Code:

./composer.json is not writable.

Can you tell me about this? I am almost newbie to this.

hazel · 08-24-2020, 09:15 AM

You don't say what name you were working in. 755 means that the owner of the file has read, write and execute rights (4+2+1) but everyone else has read and execute only (4+1). So if you were working as www-data, you should have had write access, but not if you were logged on as yourself.

Similarly with your failed update. /vendor isn't a standard Linux directory but, as it's a top-level directory, I assume that it is owned by root. So you would have to be root to do an update.

Oldy · 08-24-2020, 11:23 AM

You don't say what name you were working in.
nginx, mariadb and Ubuntu/VPS. Or 'oldy: sudo root' Is that correct?

oldy: composer require symfony/polyfill-ctype

/var/www/html/test.com/vendor perm 755

Summary:
- permission is 755 (ex. vendor and composer.json)
- chown/chgrp: www-data/www-data
- user is oldy, super user is root

How can I do it now?

hazel · 08-24-2020, 12:10 PM

If you want to update a software package, you must be root. In your case, that means using sudo with your own password. Once the update is done, the other problem may resolve itself.

If not, we'll deal with it then.

Oldy · 08-24-2020, 12:33 PM

oldy: sudo composer upgrade

or

oldy: sudo composer require symfony/polyfill-ctype

Quote:

Do not run Composer as root/super user!

hazel · 08-24-2020, 12:51 PM

OK, let's try something else. When you used "composer require" you were told:
./composer.json is not writable.

So it looks as if you have a composer.json file in your home directory. Correct? In that case, just make it writable and see if that solves the problem. You can do it with chmod:

Code:

chmod u+w composer.json

If it's not in your home directory, you might need to use sudo to change the permissions.

Oldy · 08-24-2020, 01:22 PM

oldy $ chown u+w composer.json

Quote:

Operation not permitted

oldy $ sudo chown u+w composer.json (blank)
oldy $ composer require symfony/polyfill-ctype

Quote:

./composer.json is not writable.

and the same composer.json as before.

ondoho · 08-24-2020, 01:40 PM

Sorry, instead of chowning and chmodding, shouldn't you run composer as www-data?

Code:

sudo -u www-data composer ...

Oldy · 08-24-2020, 03:05 PM

Yes, one step further.

composer update or upgrade, ok
sudo -u www-data composer update or upgrade, ok
composer require symfony/polyfill-ctype, ok

Here is mariadb so I should have database/host/user/pass, but it fails:
Something went wrong: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

Possibly I read this:

/storage/logs/flarum-installer.log

Quote:

...
Flarum Installer.ERROR: Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\CommandNotFoundException: Command "migrate" is not defined. in /var/www/html/test.com/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:669
...
Flarum Installer.ERROR: Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\NamespaceNotFoundException: There are no commands defined in the "cache" namespace. in /var/www/html/test.com/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:597
...

ondoho · 08-25-2020, 11:55 PM

The information you provide is patchy; all I can gather from it is that

you have some sort of SQL problem. The error message however suggests that it could have something to do with DNS; does your VPS do DNS? Try a simple 'ping archive.org'
apparently you are not meeting some of the prerequisites to install flarum - what I do not know, maybe you have to edit a file beforehand, maybe you have to install some dependencies. Did you check flarums's installation requirements & instructions before attempting this?

Oldy · 08-26-2020, 10:43 AM

ping archive.org

Quote:

64 bytes from www.archive.org : icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 times=148 ms
64 bytes from www.archive.org : icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 times=147 ms
etc

One step further.

I tested database (access_tokens.frm, access_tokens.ibd, api_keys.frm, api_keys.ibd, clarkwinkelmann_group_invitations.frm etc) with new server.

oldy$ php --version
PHP 7.4.3

user is only me.

oldy$ sudo systemctl restart mariadb, ok
oldy$ sudo systemctl restart php7.4-fpm.service, ok
oldy$ sudo systemctl restart nginx, ok

oldy$ sudo service mariadb restart, ok
oldy$ sudo service php7.4-fpm restartm, ok
oldy$ sudo service nginx restart, ok

oldy$ sudo apt clean, ok
oldy$ sudo apt update, ok
oldy$ sudo apt upgrade, ok
oldy$ sudo apt install, ok
oldy$ sudo -u www-data composer update, ok
oldy$ sudo -u www-data composer upgrade, ok

oldy$ php flarum cache:clear,
oldy$ php flarum migrate -vvv,
oldy$ php flarum install -vvv

Quote:

Warning: unlink(/test.com/blabla/) and file_update_contents(/test.com/blabla/): failed to open stream: Permission denined on line xxx

oldy$ sudo -u www-data php flarum cache:clear, ok
oldy$ sudo -u www-data php flarum migrate -vvv, ok
oldy$ sudo -u www-data php flarum install -vvv, ok

oldy$ pwd
/var/www/html/test.com

oldy$ sudo systemctl status mariadb
(yellow font)

Quote:

...
debian-start
Looking for mysql as /usr/bin/mysql
Looking for mysqlcheck as /usr/bin/mysqlcheck
Version check failed. Got the following error when the mysql command line client
ERROR 1045 Access denied for user root@localhost (using password: NO)
...

Above fails, but still success below

oldy$ mariadb -u root -p <password>

Quote:

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.
MariaDB > _

oldy$ sudo -u www-data systemctl status mariadb, ok

Edit: I must have now 'sudo -u www-data composer/php ...<and password>' (long sentence every day from now) rather then short 'composer/php ...'