Why don't I have write privileges on my Wordpress theme directory?

davide123 · 05-22-2011, 06:28 AM

I can't make write changes to .php files in my Wordpress editor, although I have already chmod -R 777 the directory. here is what ls -al says:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/purple-swirl/
total 12
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 4096 May 21 17:10 .
drwxrwxrwx. 4 root root 4096 May 21 17:10 ..
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 4096 May 21 17:10 purple-swirl

getfacl says:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# getfacl /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/purple-swirl/
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/purple-swirl/
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

I restarted mysqld after chmod, I dont know what the deals is... Please help...
thanks
Davide

T3RM1NVT0R · 05-22-2011, 07:03 AM

Hi Davide,

Check the attribute set on that particular directory. You can check the attributes by lsattr /directory_location. If there is a immutable attribute set on that directory/file you won't be able to write to it. It will open in read only mode.

This attribute is set to prevent any unintended write operation to that file/directory. You can change the immutable attribute by using following command:

chattr -i /directory/file

davide123 · 05-22-2011, 08:45 AM

I checked and tried as you said, still can't write this is my output:

Code:

[root@localhost themes]# chattr -i ./purple-swirl/
[root@localhost themes]# lsattr ./purple-swirl/
-------------e- ./purple-swirl/purple-swirl

T3RM1NVT0R · 05-22-2011, 08:49 AM

Lets have a look at the way file system is mounted. Please let us know the output of the following command:

mount | grep /

Also,

Run the above command on per device basis. Support you have following partitions in your hdd say sda1, sdb1

Then run the following:

mount | grep /dev/sda1
mount | grep /dev/sdb1

davide123 · 05-22-2011, 09:12 AM

Output:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# mount |grep /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home on /home type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/dee/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dee)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Book type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
[root@localhost ~]# mount |grep /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
[root@localhost ~]# mount |grep /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Book type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
[root@localhost ~]#

T3RM1NVT0R · 05-22-2011, 12:43 PM

Alright the partitions seems to be mounted with rw options so there is no reason as to why you are not able to write. We still have one more thing that we can try i.e. to reboot the system and see if you are able to write after that. If not we can try turning off mysqld and then try to write to the file as to see if we are not able to write because files already being locked by the application.

You can still see the files that are in use by mysql by typing the following command:

lsof | grep mysqld