[BlueOnyx:01090] Re: PHP method for changing folder / file owner?

[Jeff Jones]

Hey thanks for this Stephanie, (and Matt for the php chown ref)

So my situation is this:

drwxrwxr-- 	admin	site1	/Home/Sires/www.bb.com/Web/

In this setup - the wordpress site works, but can not write to  
anything because apache has read perms only

So what you are saying that if I set "safe_mode_gid = On" in php.ini

And then do a chmod g+S * in the /Home/Sires/www.bb.com/Web/   
directory - all the files in the directory below inherit the group  
ownership - in which case would be rwx?

Is that right?

Cheers,

Jeff




On 17 Apr 2009, at 13:28, Stephanie Sullivan wrote:

> If the files are uploaded with ftp they need to be chmod'd for world  
> write
> (or group write if using suggestions below). Not set by default.
>
> If php safe mode is on you should set "safe_mode_gid = On" in php.ini
>
> When wordpress is installed the directories do not have the group S
> protection (chmod g+S *) enabled. This forces the default file  
> creation
> group to be the same as the containing directory. It's on by default  
> on the
> directories that BQ/BX creates. With this you should only need group  
> write
> enabled. (chmod g+w ... and can be set by mod ftp clients). You will  
> still
> need to (once) set the group to the site's group.
>
> Wordpress is really kind of a pain in the BX/BQ environment, but  
> works fine
> once it's setup well.
>
> 	Thanks,
> 		-Stephanie
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
>> bounces at blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Jeff Jones
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:30 AM
>> To: Blueonyx at blueonyx.it
>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:01086] PHP method for changing folder / file
>> owner?
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have a real hosting pain on my hands with BX with someone that is
>> insisting on uploading files via wordpress via FTP using the admin
>> user account, but not being able to write to them via wordpress. Due
>> to the particular setup we run, we are not able to change folder
>> ownership / perms via FTP.
>>
>> The only current solution is that I need to manually (each time) log
>> in and change the ownership to apache, and that generally sorts it.
>>
>> I know there was talk of some sort of tickbox / permissions fixer -
>> but in the meantime can anyone think of another way I can get around
>> this?
>>
>> I have thought of perhaps they could upload a PHP file and put a
>> CHOWN
>> change request in that. The file would only be uploaded when they
>> wanted to change perms, and I understand I would have to disable safe
>> mode. But I'm rubbish as PHP so I was thinking perhaps someone knew
>> how to do this?
>>
>> Are there any other suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeff
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