[Typo3] Problem with folder move... File not written to disk! Write permission error in filesystem?

[Gilles Deacur]

Gilles Deacur wrote:
> Gilles Deacur wrote:
> 
>> Christopher wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 12/11/05, Gilles Deacur <tronno22556 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Roy Beck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gilles Deacur wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What I had to do is download all files to my harddrive and then
>>>>>>>> upload to a different position in the website.  Filezilla 
>>>>>>>> apparently
>>>>>>>> lacks a feature that just moves the files around on the site 
>>>>>>>> itself.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I went into the install tool and my open_basedir is : 
>>>>>>>> open_basedir: off
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is the exact same setting in the old site location.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I fired up my CuteFTP and did a "move" from the old location to the
>>>>>>> new location, so I imagine it would have automatically overwritten
>>>>>>> the old permissions and ownerships.  Still get the same error upon
>>>>>>> logging into the backend.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Furthermore, I checked the file ownership, and my uploads defaulted
>>>>>> them to my username, whereas on the old site, a lot of them were
>>>>>> marked as "nobody".  Does the fact that they are marked as
>>>>>> "myusername" vs. "nobody" have any sort of impact?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> This is not really a Typo3-specific issue, but rather a problem for
>>> your host (or whoever has 'root' or sufficient priveleges on your
>>> webserver anyway) to solve. Nobody here can really do much to help you
>>> out except to confirm that, yes, the download-reupload sequence caused
>>> the problem.
>>>
>>> If your site is on a linux box--I don't really know, in enough detail
>>> to help you out, how it works on Windows--the user that executes php
>>> scripts (often this user is called 'nobody') must be able to execute
>>> scripts and read and write to certain files and directories. At the
>>> same time, it's usually necessary for the account owner's username to
>>> be able to read and write many or all of the same files and
>>> directories. This can be done by making both users members of the same
>>> group.
>>>
>>> Since your host is unlikely to allow your user to be a member of the
>>> group that the 'nobody' user belongs to, the solution will probably be
>>> to change the appropriate files so that their _group_ is 'nobody' (or
>>> whatever).
>>>
>>> You'll need your host to do this (unless you're running a dedicated
>>> server or VPS), but what needs to be done is something like the
>>> following series of commands (broken up for readability):
>>>
>>> [Assuming you're in 'public_html' or equivalent...]
>>>
>>> chgrp -R nobody typo3conf
>>> chgrp -R nobody typo3temp
>>> chgrp -R nobody fileadmin
>>> chgrp -R nobody uploads
>>>
>>> [Assuming you're in the directory containing the directory 
>>> typo3_src-3.8.1]
>>>
>>> chgrp -R nobody typo3_src-3.8.1
>>>
>>> You will need to make sure that file permissions are correctly set on
>>> the first set of files; if the webserver (i.e. 'nobody') is to be able
>>> to write to those directories (_definitely_ necessary in the case of
>>> typo3conf, typo3temp and uploads), they will likely have to have
>>> permissions of 775 (i.e. since the second '7' gives read, write and
>>> execute priveleges to the _group_ that the files belong to).
>>>
>>> The source files (second group) should be fine with permissions set to
>>> 755, _unless_ you need to install extensions to the global location
>>> (typo3/ext/) in which case, you'll have to set the permissions of that
>>> directory appropriately.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Christopher
>>
>>
>>
>> I clipped and pasted this email for my hosting support to look at.  
>> They changed the owners and it works great now!
>>
>> Thanks for your help on this one.  This support network is great!
> 
> 
> I still have a problem:
> 
> I tried uploading a template for a site into /fileadmin/ and got this 
> error:
> 
> 
> Warning: 
> move_uploaded_file(/home2/sunshine/public_html/fileadmin/gisbits/template-gisbits-2.htm): 
> failed to open stream: Permission denied in 
> /home2/sunshine/public_html/typo3/t3lib/class.t3lib_div.php on line 2989
> 
> Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phpmpe7HP' to 
> '/home2/sunshine/public_html/fileadmin/gisbits/template-gisbits-2.htm' 
> in /home2/sunshine/public_html/typo3/t3lib/class.t3lib_div.php on line 2989
> 
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by 
> (output started at 
> /home2/sunshine/public_html/typo3/t3lib/class.t3lib_div.php:2989) in 
> /home2/sunshine/public_html/typo3/template.php on line 601
> 
> 
> Errors:
>     1: Uploaded file could not be moved! Write-permission problem in 
> "/home2/sunshine/public_html/fileadmin/gisbits/"?
> 
> I notice that I have filesettings in the new fileadmin as owner/group: 
> myname (?)  [My actual user name and an actual question mark for the 
> group] for all files within fileadmin.
> 
> The old settings were:
> myname / myname for _temp_, user_upload, and for one file and the rest 
> (8 folders) are set to: nobody (?) [The name NOBODY with an actual 
> question mark for the group]
> 
> Is there a reason some were marked with my name and others were set to 
> nobody?
> 
> Is there a "proper" setting for all these folders so I can have my host 
> chown these to the right group?  Or are some of one type and others of 
> another type?
> 
> Thanks.

I think the problem is that my file "typo3_src-3.8.1" was renamed.  I 
don't see any changes on the groups for that directory.  I'm going to 
wait to see if my host can change these.