[Neos] Neos setfilepermissions

[nikos]

Unfortunately I have had to give in and needing to set permissions for directories and files as 755/640 with 750 on the directory above the Neos 
install :(

Thanks for the help on this.

Warm wishes

Nick

On 04/07/2014 16:54, nikos wrote:
> Hi Marcin
>
> Thanks again your right re debugging by relaxing access. I am making slow progress going down the Web/_Resources file structure and opening the
> permissions along that path .
>
> I think the problem lies in the way the server is set up. It is using mod_suphp and the php user and group are setup to be the same in this case
> rerootco. Whereas the web server user and group are nobody.
>
> I got a little frustrated as I wasn't sure if using the setfilepermissions was correct as when you run it in the case where it is using chmod or
> setfacl this only appends the permissions (at least chmod seems too on OSX) does. However if it falls through to setting permissions per file it
> actually changes the permissions making it tighter. I have now verified that the tighter setup works fine on OSX with user nick webserver user and
> group _www, so I have confirmed that in practice setfilepermissions gives you a working setup!
>
> I just need to figure out how to get this going on my webserver without world access.
>
> Many thanks again
>
> Nikos
>
> On 04/07/2014 13:50, Marcin Ryzycki wrote:
>> Hi nikos,
>>
>> My suggestion to relax permissions was just to help debug the problem. Once you figured out that it works fine on relaxed permissions, you could start
>> tightening them again and see when the problem come back. Neos per se doesn't require any extra permissions - it is like with each application: your
>> process need to have access to it to serve it and write access to only a few locations (like /Data/).
>>
>> You might also want to have a look at your php/web server's logs - you'll find there exact information why and what couldn't be read.
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>> nikos wrote:
>>> Although I could relax the settings and allow world access, I am not
>>> sure if this a good idea with regards to having a secure setup, again i
>>> thought that was what setfilepermissions was all about.
>>>
>>> So given that I have ran setfilepermissions should Neos work with just
>>> user and group set as in my original posting asuming correct command
>>> line user, webserver & webserver group ? Is this what others are running
>>> or have they relaxed the filepermissions? If so is there a problem?
>