Re: [opensuse] Permissions problem with Joomla

On 31/03/10 14:15, Bob Williams wrote:
On Wednesday 31 Mar 2010 02:11:00 Michael Harnden wrote:
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 05:57:18 pm Bob Williams wrote:
Hi,

I've recently installed Joomla, a CMS website design program. I have
successfully setup the LAMP server, and copied the Joomla files to a
subdirectory under /srv/www/. The installation ran without difficulty,
and I can login to the localhost website as admin. But when I try to edit
stuff, Joomla tells me that its configuration files and all the other
files, such as *.css are unwriteable.

I have changed the ownership of the joomla directory to myself and group
users, so now all directories in that tree have permissions 755 and files
have permissions 644.

As my user, I can create a file in kate and save it to the
/srv/www/joomla directory, so it is writeable by me. So why can't Joomla
admin, running in an instance of (any) web browser in my userspace, write
to its own files?

Bob

Hi Bob,
Did you use the Joomla installer, or copy the files? What I do for my local
installations of Joomla is make myself a member of the www group and make
the files and directories I need to edit writeable by www. By default
apache on runs as the wwwrun user and www group so I am guessing that is
why Joomla is complaining about not being to write to files.
Mike

Hi Mike,

I used the Joomla web browser installer, but it was unable to write to
configuration.php at the end of that process, so I had to do the copy'n'paste
workaround.

I've followed your advice of adding myself to the www group, and changing
ownership and write permissions to that group, and it seems to be working
well, now.

Many thanks,

Bob

I know it's not correct in general, but I make my Apache run as me to
avoid changes rights any time I copy/extract files from somewhere.

You can set it in: /etc/apache2/uid.conf

I'm not sure about XAMPP, it may use it's own apache installation.
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