First off, I'm running Mono to run ASP.NET on Linux, but that's not the question.
It appears that, every time I clear out my application directory and upload, I have to go back in and fix the permissions. What I'm doing is
chmod -R -c 755 /var/www/*
...and there are two questions.
What's the deal with having to do this every time I FTP? Feels flaky.
Is there a better permissions set than 755? Do I want different permissions for the /bin directory? Or can I fix this all with one fell swoop of chown?
It could depend on your FTP server and configuration. I always used this and it worked:
chmod 777 /path/...
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I'm having an issue with directory permissions with Laravel when it comes to caching. Whenever it tries to upload a cache file to /var/www/laravel/storage/framework/cache/data/ it tells me that file_put_contents has no permissions.
To fix this I always do something like chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel/storage/framework/cache/ but the problem here is that when it creates a new directory inside cache it does not inherit these chmod settings, thus giving me permission denied error again.
How can this be fixed permanently?
Edit:
Been thinking about letting it run as a cronjob regularly, but I'm not so sure that's a good way to deal with it.
You need to run chmod command with -R:
sudo chmod -R 755 storage
After installing Laravel, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run. If you are using the Homestead virtual machine, these permissions should already be set.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5#installation
Am working in Django and was trying to serve media files and was encountering an error with accessing the system folder serving media files. Being (much) less familiar with terminal-related commands, I searched SO for a solution. I ended up executing the "good" code in this SO answer. This part, specifically:
sudo groupadd varwwwusers
sudo adduser www-data varwwwusers
sudo chgrp -R varwwwusers /var/www/
sudo chmod -R 770 /var/www/
This somehow messed up my whole system. I can't even start gunicorn now, I'm getting OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/apps/djangoProjectFolder' in my terminal output when I try to do so.
I'm basically clueless at this point. Would like to learn what I did wrong, and how I can undo this situation.
Thanks for the comment. I ended up doing a clean reinstall of Unbuntu. All fixed now! Just that it was really laborious to manually transfer all my existing files since wholesale copy+pasting didn't work (seemed like the erroneous permissions got copied over too).
I just installed Symfony CMF (standard edition 1.1) on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 13. Everything is installed without errors but I always end up with a permission problem regarding the /app/cache & /app/logs folder.
As far as I know I installed the CMF as user root and the frontend is using user www-data, The only way to get it working without problems is by using these commands;
sudo chown -R :www-data app
sudo chmod g+s app
sudo setfacl -dR -m g::rwX app
chmod -R 777 app
After that it works perfectly but I am sure that from a security point of view this is not the correct way to do this.
So, I hope that anyone who has experienced this problem can provide me with a secure and correct method of solving the /app/ permission problem.
If I need to provide more information or show some configurations, I will gladly provide it as I need to solve this minor issue that is blocking the launch of my project.
This is explained in detail in the symfony documentation. Note that for images, we use the Imagine bundle, so you also need to set permissions on web/media/cache.
Usually you do not want to do things like deployments or git checkout as root, but with a non-privileged user. It is a good idea to have the webserver run under a different user, so that it can not just edit PHP files, to limit the potential damage in case there is a security issue in the webserver or your application.
Am currently working on a CouchDB project, and have recently decided to switch to a Linux environment for development as I plan to deploy on a Linux server.
I was hoping to copy over my .couch files straight from - Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/CouchDB-1-1-1/var/lib/couchdb - and paste them directly into what I guess should be - var/lib/couchdb - But I keep running into file/folder permission errors each time I try to access var/lib/couchdb.
Is it even possible to transfer .couch files in the way I envisage?
...
Update - Follwing up on Dominic's comments, I managed to apply the fix found in the answer below.
After some investigative work, I found it to be a permissions error, exactly as Dominic Barnes had suggested in the comments...
The issue is also discussed here - Staging setup with couchdb
To fix it, I first ran;
sudo chmod -R 755 var/lib/couchdb
I may have also changed the permissions on the relevant parent folders too. I was then able to copy my .couch files into var/lib/couchdb/COUCH-VERSION-NUMBER. After doing that, I then had to use chmod to set favourable write permissions on the newly copied files, but also had to run:
sudo chown couchdb var/lib/couchdb/COUCH-VERSION-NUMBER/
To open those files up to the user group (the "couchdb" group) that the couchdb installation sets up for internal use (I think...). After that, I restarted couchdb, forcing it to stop with:
ps -U couchdb -o pid= | xargs kill -9
and restarting with:
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
After that, everything seemed to work as expected.
Hope that helps anyone else running into the same problem.
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!