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[pmarian]

Hi,

I've recently moved with my VPS to another company. At the old VPS i had OpenVZ and now i use XEN.

Since i moved i have many permisions (chmod) issues.

For example i was unable to clear the cache from a joomla website until i've set the chmod for cache folder.

What can i do in this matter ?

Thank you!

[XTremo]

It is an issue sometimes because different hosts set things up different ways.

I know bugger all server side but I instruct any new VPS provider to look at the setup on one of my existing VPS's then duplicate it. I believe disabling suPHP is one of the things....any more than that I just don't know.

If you find the Joomla cache folder won't empty, just rename it, and create a new cache folder containing the index file from the original. Job done.

[pmarian]

Disabiling suPHP will not affecting other websites ?

[XTremo]

Originally Posted by pmarian

Disabiling suPHP will not affecting other websites ?

I'm not a sysadmin so I can't answer that question. All I know is sometimes you have to adjust things server side to allow heavily modded Joomla sites to function properly.
Especially if they're integrated with other applications or taking data from other applications databases on other domains.
And while I can't tell you what you have to do, there are ways to get it done. No doubt one of the experienced server guys here can elaborate.

[turbovps]

Ask your host to fix it for you or get control panel with fantastico etc. If you are having self managed then you can hire admin for one time job.
Depends how important this site is for you and if you can wait for hours or days to find help.

[mj7k]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Jo...ccess%20Rights

[pmarian]

@mj7k thanks a lot. What i should put instead of www-data:www-data ? What username ?

root@server1 [~]# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/joomla
chown: `www-data:www-data': invalid user

[mj7k]

Originally Posted by pmarian

@mj7k thanks a lot. What i should put instead of www-data:www-data ? What username ?

root@server1 [~]# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/joomla
chown: `www-data:www-data': invalid user

That's the apache user, in debian and ubuntu it's usually www-data. You can check this from your apache configuration files.

[pmarian]

I use CentOS. I've search on the internet and i have not found the apache username for CentOS.

I use cPanel/WHM with CENTOS 5.5 x86_64 xen.

Any idea ?

[mj7k]

Originally Posted by pmarian

I use CentOS. I've search on the internet and i have not found the apache username for CentOS.

I use cPanel/WHM with CENTOS 5.5 x86_64 xen.

Any idea ?

I've never used centos, but you could try apache:apache

[pmarian]

I've already tried apache:apache and:

root@server1 [/]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/joomla
chown: `apache:apache': invalid user

[mj7k]

Originally Posted by pmarian

I've already tried apache:apache and:

root@server1 [/]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/joomla
chown: `apache:apache': invalid user

check apache user and group (user:group) from your apache configuration file, in centos I think the file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

[pmarian]

I've found this in httpd.conf:

User nobody
Group nobody

[pmarian]

root@server1 [/]# chown -R nobody:nobody /var/www/joomla
chown: cannot access `/var/www/joomla': No such file or directory

it seems i don't have that path. I mean i don't have the /www and /joomla folder in /var

[mj7k]

you need to change that to the path to your joomla installation.