[TYPO3-english] Help with permissions and extensions

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Piers temp account schrieb:
> Hi everyone, help would be massively appreciated - further to my 
> previous post:
> 
> It's gone a bit wrong for me since I started trying to mess around with 
> the direct mail cron file, dmailerd.phpcron. I got the ownership of this 
> file changed, then changed it back to it's original state, without 
> changing anything in the file.
> 
> Now, and I don't know why, I get this error when trying to edit 
> extension files (any extension file, not just this one) -
> 
> Warning: 
> fopen(/home/wwwcity/public_html/typo3conf/ext/direct_mail/pi1/locallang.php) 
> [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission
> denied in /home/wwwcity/public_html/t3lib/class.t3lib_div.php on line 2687
> 
> Also, Direct Mail has stopped fetching html and plain text content, 
> which may be related.

This is a different issue, which I will addres later.

> Can anyone tell me what's going on, and if I've triggered something very 
> bad.

Basically if you want TYPO3 to work with all the files it needs to work 
TYPO3 (the webserver) needs read access to all PHP files.
Additionally the webserver needs write access to the directories you 
want to write files to (fileadmin, typo3conf/ext/, uploads).

If you want to allow to install global extensions (only needed in 
certain hosting cicumstances) the webserver also needs write access to 
typo3/ext/.

Issue 2: Direct Mail fetching
Direct_mail will try to fopen the URL (!) of your website internally.
So if it cannot access this URL it could be that the webserver can't 
lookup its own domain (or the domain you try to access).

Hope this helps

Mathias