File/Folder Permissions

[wilsonge]

For the web script it would be awesome to have a point about setting file permissions. been struggling to fix creating files/folder permissions for Joomla for the last 30/45 mins minutes!

[betweenbrain]

Which web script? https://github.com/betweenbrain/linux-stuff/tree/master/xubuntu-12.04-web-dev-setup

[betweenbrain]

If it is that script, you shouldn't have any permission issues as you are running Apache as you, not www-data That is the main reason for doing so.

[wilsonge]

I've been using this one for a lamp stack: https://github.com/betweenbrain/linux-stuff/tree/master/ubuntu-web-dev-setup but on lubuntu? Joomla won't create a config file, FOF can't create a folder for caching stuff etc.

[betweenbrain]

It does sound like Apache is not running as you, or maybe the public_html is owned by root. Check out http://serverfault.com/questions/125865/finding-out-what-user-apache-is-running-as .

Also, try running the following commands, as root, with replacing $USER with your username.

chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/public_html
find /home/$USER/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
find /home/$USER/public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

[wilsonge]

root     11404  0.0  0.1 231672 10164 ?        Ss   23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11409  0.0  0.1 232024 10216 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11410  0.0  0.1 232024 10216 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11411  0.0  0.1 232024 10216 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11412  0.0  0.1 232024 10212 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11413  0.0  0.1 232024 10212 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11414  0.1  0.1 236112 14948 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11416  0.0  0.1 232024 10200 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11417  0.0  0.1 235144 13876 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11419  0.0  0.1 232024 10200 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 11420  0.0  0.1 232024 10200 ?        S    23:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
user     19816  0.0  0.0  20428   956 pts/0    R+   23:21   0:00 egrep --color=auto (apache|httpd)

It looks like root has control unforunately :( but your commands above there don't seem to make any difference. I'd already tried the latter 2 before actually.

I also checked my httpd.conf file and it seemed to be fine from the instructions

[betweenbrain]

Yes, Apache is not running under your user account, which is the root cause of the issue.

Can you post the contents of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

[wilsonge]

ServerName localhost
User user
Group user

Contents of that file. user being the username of the only user account i have set up for linux

[betweenbrain]

Is "user" your username? I'd not, you need to replace user with your real
user's name.

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ServerName localhost
User user
Group user

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[wilsonge]

Yup user is the username of the account (thanks to the pc shop who did the initial setup)

[betweenbrain]

Can you post the output from $ whoami and $ groups

[wilsonge]

$ groups: user adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
$ whoami: user

[betweenbrain]

Odd, that should work. Do you get any error messages when running $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart ?

[wilsonge]

There is a warning - but no errors. Warning:

* Restarting web server apache2                                                [Tue Oct 15 14:14:32 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
 ... waiting [Tue Oct 15 14:14:33 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
                                                                         [ OK ]

[betweenbrain]

I susect the issue is with apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name and not ever reading the User and Group directve. Try commenting out line 1 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and restart Apache to see if those warnings go away. If so, then try ps -ef | grep httpd | head -n1 | awk '{print $1}'

[wilsonge]

OK i removed it. Still get a warning though:

[Tue Oct 15 14:27:38 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
 ... waiting [Tue Oct 15 14:27:39 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

Running that command just gives me user