(server) Folder permissions woes

Fenster

I've been banging my head off the wall with this problem for sometime. I have a shell account on Digiweb's Linux hosting that I use to manage my websites. Content management systems (Pixelpost 1.7.3 and Wordpress 2.9.2) that I use run into problems when they are called upon to edit or upload files into the system: I am basically forced to change the permissions of a folder to 777 for them to be able to work with/in the folder.

I have set umask at 022, file ownership and group to my own by hand and set folder and file permissions as 775 and 666. For lack of a better description, when Wordpress uploads a file itself (as opposed to me FTPing it) it appears to be acting from outside the group/user I have set for folders.

I will happily provide any requested output, but at this point I am basically banging my head off the wall on the issue.

Here is an example with a folder named "05":

mkdir 05
chown -R myname:mygroup 05
chmod -R 775 05
ls -l 05
drwxrwxr-x 2 myname mygroup 4096 May 2 18:11 05

And an upload from within Wordpress to that folder returns:

Sorry, there has been an error.

The uploaded file could not be moved to /path/to/05.

AndrewMc

Can you try making that folder world writable (chmod 777) and use "ls -l" to see what owner the uploaded file is created as. It's possibly something like "www-data" which is the user the Apache server is running as. It's that user that you need to allow access to, not your own.

Fenster

I just tested and you were absolutely correct in this. I cannot, however, change ownership to that user/group (permission denied). Time to elevate this.