Drupal does not recognize my website has been installed - linux

After a successful Drupal install, I was trying to follow the security recommendations and reverted the settings.php file to 444 permissions (read, read, read). Then, all of a sudden, right after doing that, Drupal does not recognize the installation process was completed. It went back to the install screen. Worst of all. I did chmod back to 666 (write, write, write) but it does not work any more.
When I move forward as if I was going to install Drupal again, he tells me he does not have permissions to create the files folder under sites/default... But since the installation has already been completed... the files folder is already there... I am puzzled... Could it be some sort of server caching? Since this is one of my first adventures with a Linux server, I am a bit confused. Any help appreciated... Thanks.

Check your folders permissions there's settings.php...

I found the problem to be that when I changed the settings.php file permissions to 444, I also changed the sites/default folder permissions to 444. After I realized there was a problem, I changed it to 666, but it still wasn't working. The web server could not see anything inside that folder. Then finally I have set it for 755 copying other folder''s permissions... Bingo! works normally.

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Drupal 7 Install on Redhat w/ Apache - sites/default/files is not writable

I have spent numerous hours on an issue that has left me puzzled. I am attempting to install Drupal on Linux Redhat using apache, but it will not allow me to pass step 3 due to the fact that sites/default/files is not writable.
I have followed the instructions on Drupal's site, in their install.txt file as well as the instructions of others who have had the same error with no success.
I have granted permissions access all different ways root:root 777, root:apache 777, I have verified that apache is the user running the apache process and I am still stuck.
Note: I was able to complete the install on windows.
Any new ideas?
Okay, so after following directions from both official and non-official web sources, the one thing that was never instructed to do or try was to reboot the application AFTER making permission changes to the files directory. I tried it, and this solved the issue.
This is weird because I've never had to reboot an OS after making permission changes on a directory. Additionally I did restart httpd after each change thinking that would be sufficient. Hopefully this can help anyone else running Redhat 7 with the same issue.
Thanks, TH
I solved this problem by changing the security context of the directory "sites".
My Drupal core files are in: /var/www/html/drupal
Then I applied the command:
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/www/html/drupal/sites/

Installing software on Ubuntu as non-root

I've been stuck on a problem for two days now where the software I'm trying to install will not proceed unless I make a separate user which is non-root.
Keep in mind I'm a big linux noob and not very experienced with the OS.
I make a user called "smrtanalysis" in a group called "smrtanalysis".
I put him in the sudoers file.
I made a folder called smrtanalysis in my home/nick/ directory
I downloaded the software from the PacBio website and put the .run files into this directory I noted above.
I used chmod 777 and chown (to user smrtanalysis) on the directory
noted above, and the .run file
I logged into smrtanalysis user by su smrtanalysis, password, and typed
./smrtanalyis-2.2.0.133377.run
the file runs, but then aborts with the following error message:
We recommend running this script as a designated SMRT Analysis user
(e.g. smrtanalysis) who will own all smrtpipe jobs and daemon
processes.
Current user is 'root' (primary group: root)
Installing as 'root' is currently not supported Switch to the desired
user and restart the install. Aborting installation...
Here is the install documentation:
https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/SMRT-Analysis/wiki/SMRT-Analysis-Software-Installation-v2.2.0
It seems pretty straightforward but I can't seem to get it working. If you guys look at the install docs, you'll probably be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks for any help!
Regards,
Nick
change
SMRT_ROOT=/opt/smrtanalysis
on
SMRT_ROOT=/home/nick/smrtanalysis
the rest should be easy.
Be very careful installing binaries from internet, make sure you're confident in the source.
Just don't use root for that, you ran the script as root by accident.
(update: pacbio team can help from the github page at https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/SMRT-Analysis/issues as well.)

SVN Commit error: Can't open file txn-current-lock Permission denied

I can do checkouts, update and such. But when I try to commit changes, SVN gives me the following error:
Can't open file '/svn/p/pokemonium/code/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied
I am using Windows 7 x64 SP1 with latest version of TortoiseSVN.
UAC is off, my account has read and write access, etc.
I can commit fine to other svn repositorys.
For me it ended up being a permissions issue on the server. I have my repo on a linux box, and ssh in to use svnadmin. For convenience sake, I had executed my create repository command as root. I was looking to get source I had on my Windows box into the repo, so was using TortoiseSVN to set up trunk/branches/tags. The directory containing the repo on the server was owned by root, and Tortoise was coming in as apache. I chowned the directory on the server to apache:apache, and it all went smoothly.
chown apache:apache -R my_repo_root
This is a server configuration issue. On windows host Visual SVN server runs under NETWORK SERVICE account by default. I solved this problem by granting full access rights to the repository folder to this account. Another option is switching Visual SVN service to the SYSTEM account, but that could pose a potential security risk.
Try this.
Make a back up copy of your working copy (just to be safe).
Make another copy your entire working copy off somewhere else.
Take the copy and delete all of the SVN folders out of it
Delete your working copy and do a fresh checkout
now copy/paste your corrupted working copy over your fresh checkout.
it is critical for this to work that you have completely removed ever _svn or .svn folder from your corrupted working copy before you perform the copy/paste.
This will leave you (hopefully) with a working copy that shows (!) on all the files you had modified since your last commit. And fixes your lock issue.
I had the same problem after I re-installed Windows 7 and just copied the SVN Repository from the old Windows to the new one.
After trying the steps that Mr. Manager proposed, the problem was still not fixed in my case.
After making sure that the permissions was setup correctly for the SVN Repository folder I just deleted the file 'txn-current-lock' in the /db folder of the project. That fixed it for me. From thereon I could commit my project again.
I had faced same issue on Unix box
Restarting the Apache service of the SVN server solved myproblem.
-f httpd.conf -k stop
-f httpd.conf -k start
In my own case, my linux server had been restarted after a power loss. The file system remained mounted as read-only since some journal repairs had been made. Rebooting the machine restored full function.
permissions worked for me too
error
repo/db/txn-current-lock: Permission denied
fix
chown apache:apache -R my_repo_root

SVN Error (Can't set file)

Everytime I try to commit files to SVN I got the following error.
Command Commit
Modified D:\Project\src\WebSite\SomePage.aspx.cs
Sending Content D:\Project\AKent\src\WebSite\Test\SomePage.aspx.cs
Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
Can't set file 'D:\Project\AKent\src\WebSite\Test\SomePage.aspx.cs'
read-write: Access is denied.
After I get this error, SVN doesnt allow me to update or commit anything! And what is really frustrating me is that the project folder is around 2 GB and every night I download it from SVN over and over.
Please help me to fix it! I just wanna know what is wrong with my SVN. I tried reinstalling, didn't fix anything.
I had the same problem but fixed. My solution is:
1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator
2. Navigate to the target working copy
3. svn cleanup
The error
read-write: Access is denied.
indicates that svn can not access the file or can't set all attributes it needs to that file.
Now that either means you have not full access to those files or some other application has the file opened exclusively.
In the first case: make sure that your username has full access to all folders and subfolders of your working copy. Note that on Vista/Win7 it's not enough to be an admin - you have to give yourself full access to such files manually.k
In the second case: disable windows search indexer for your working copy, and exclude the working copy from being scanned by your virus scanner.
If you are sharing a svn versioned folder using samba and running into this issue when acessing it from windows machine, try:
http://tortoisesvn.net/faq.html#samba
Also add to your smb.conf file:
dos filemode = yes
copy the wrong folder (1) to another folder(2)
delete the wrong folder (1)
copy the backup(2) to (1)
Hope this approach works for you too!
I was trying to revert a file but was receiving the error listed in the OP's post. Soony's answer just about worked for me. I cannot comment or edit that answer, so I had to copy their answer and add a small step at the end. S/he deserves all the credit.
Run Command Prompt as Administrator
Navigate to the target working
copy svn cleanup
svn revert [filename]
(the revert did not work in Windows Explorer/TortoiseSVN integrated tools, I had to do it from the cmd line)

OS X permission denied for /usr/local/lib

I'm looking for any advice/intuition/clues/answers on a permission issue that has been plaguing me ever since I switched over to a new Macbook pro. Here's the dilemma. Certain programs copy libraries under /usr/local/lib during install and upon running these programs I get a crash which I believe is related to permission restrictions to files in this folder. I've had errors (can't access files from this path) trying to install plugins for audacity and then tried doing an "ls" under this folder. I immediately get permission denied unless I prefix the cmd with sudo. I've tried owning the /usr/local/lib/audacity folder with my user account and even still I get permissions errors on these files. It's important to note that the problem is not exclusive to Audacity. I've seen the same problem with Polycom video conference software and I've also been unable to run Parallels on this machine. (I haven't traced Parallels to the same issue but I'm betting its related.) I vaguely recall some weird Linux cmd magic I used to use back in the day that would not only grant permission to a user but tweak some low level bits allowing/disabling certain things like execution and I seem to recall the permission thing ran deeper than execution but its been years. I can't recall the detils and I'm wondering if there's something similar on OS X that I'm possibly overlooking. Is there something special about that location and the files there in? Could I have somehow altered my file system in a way tht the files appear different? For what its worth, I seem to be able to use at least one of the programs if I log in as root. I haven't tried with the other programs as I've just discovered the ability. Please help.
It sounds like the folder isn't world executable. Try:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib
and then you should be able to use ls or anything else in the folder (still won't allow you to write but your user account shouldn't be able to do that anyway)
Found the answer from a coworker buddy. The folder needed to be marked executable.
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib
fixes everything!

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