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Hey guys

I’m running ubuntu 10.4 with Apache2, MySQL and vsftp. I’m running into permission problems.

I am creating a user home directory, with a sub directory of www so:

/home/dazreit/www

I am unable to upload a file unless I chmod the www directory to 777, after that I can then upload a basic joomla install and when trying to install modules but it is complaining about permissions. I am guessing I need to give Apache file/directory permissions of the user directory?

I have searched but have a hit a brick wall - Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction?

I will be planning to run a few websites from my box

Thankyou!

Daz

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You probably need to make sure the www-data user and group has write permissions to the folder. I’d make sure Joomla doesn’t have its own user created as well, but it’s probably just www-data. Also make sure you remove the 777 permissions :wink:

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Thanks for that very quick reply Bryan!

What command will it be? I’m a newbie, well, hopefully past real newbie after two weeks of screaming at the command prompt :slight_smile:

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sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/dazreit/www

Basically, that means change ownership to the www-data user (the name before the colon) and the www-data group (which is the name after the colon). The last part is the folder you want to change ownership on; in your case, the www folder in your home directory.

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By the way, you may want to go over this section from the Ubuntu Community Documentation: Joomla - Community Help Wiki It assumes the default location, but it should work if you just change the path to the one you’re using.

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Ah ok, when I do that it takes away my own ownership of the directory/files so I can’t delete or rename in ftp?

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Look into ACL - it should be installed. You could add an ACL to allow your user write permissions. You may also not need to give the www group rights, just the user.

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Thanks Bryan

Just trying to get my head around it, feel the onslaught of a headache coming on :slight_smile:

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ACL isn’t too bad - the command "getfacl /home/dazreit/www should show the current permissions on the folder. setfacl -m u:dazreit:rwx /home/dazreit/www should give you full read/write/execute permissions.