[BlueOnyx:17770] Re: Document root

[Colin Jack]

Hi Greg




On 12/05/2015 01:55, "blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of Greg Kuhnert" <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of gkuhnert at compassnetworks.com.au> wrote:

>Hi Colin.
>
>> On 12 May 2015, at 7:26 am, Colin Jack <colin at mainline.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Chris
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/05/2015 22:04, "Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet" <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/11/2015 3:46 PM, Greg Kuhnert wrote:
>>>> The WHAM installer should work with install to the root of a vsite…  What are your errors?
>>> 
>>> Confirmed.  We regularly use the WHAM installer to install into the root 
>>> of a vsite.
>>> 
>>> The only time we do NOT do that, actually, is when there is content 
>>> already in the root web that cannot be overwritten while the WordPress 
>>> site is being hammered out.   Not sure if perhaps that's what happened 
>>> with Colin's installation?
>>> 
>> 
>> We have had all sorts of issues using the WHAM module.
>> Nothing different our end - just installed it on one 5208R server to save having to do it manually and every time we have had constant permission errors.
>> 
>> Most developers like to tweak files and upload custom css. WHAM installs as root so FTP won’t allow changes.
>> WP seems to need apache ownership to install plugins.
>> All in all we have found that it is easier to do a manual install TBH.
>
>As per Chris’s comments - you need to use suphp and set the owner of the files to a user under that vsite. This is why you are having permission issues. And if I remember correctly it does not install as root. It chowns them to either apache or nobody (I cannt remember). The only reason why that might fail is if you have a quota problem for your vsite. Seriously, the wham method is simple and works, as long as you have your server and vsite setup with some sane settings :)
>

Nope. :(

Created a new test vsite - suPHP on and site admin changed to owner.
Installed WHAM WP and it has installed with all the ownership set to site admin.
Try to install theme from GUI:

Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2015/06


Change ownership of wp-content to apache and all works.

Colin


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