Overview
I'm using Laravel 4.2 with an image upload feature. I have it set up on Homestead, but recently I removed Nginx and serve the site with Apache instead (due to the need to use Server Sent Events).
Before I moved from Nginx to Apache the file upload functionality worked fine. It also works fine on a staging server with Apache.
The Error
I'm using the Intervention image library to handle image uploads. When I try to upload a file, I get the following in my laravel.log file:
Can't write image data to path (/home/vagrant/projects/projectname/public/assets/pics/profile/photos/f55f0ae2-2d1a-4fdd-b9be-39d8a509baa3.jpg)
What I've Tried
I thought it was just a simple permissions error. I've gone so far as to chmod my asset directories to 0777, change the directory owner to www-data, create a new group called web with www-data and change the owner group to that, (basically everything in this answer and more) and still it doesn't work.
The directory definitely exists, and like I mentioned, it worked before the move to Apache (I'm not entirely sure if it's related but it seems likely).
My /var/log/apache2/error.log is empty, too.
The staging server works fine, but I don't want to encounter the same problem when I provision the production server. I'd like to fix the problem and understand it more so I can fix it if I ever come across it in the future. Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it/debug further?
Example Folder Permissions
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 272 Jan 26 11:07 assets/pics
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 170 Jan 26 10:11 assets/pics/defaults
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 714 Jan 26 14:10 assets/pics/forums
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 646 Jan 26 14:10 assets/pics/forums/thumbs
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 170 Jan 20 18:02 assets/pics/gallery
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 3026 Jan 26 13:24 assets/pics/messages
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 2992 Jan 26 13:24 assets/pics/messages/thumbs
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 136 Jan 8 17:27 assets/pics/profile
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 136 Feb 10 14:48 assets/pics/profile/photos
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 102 Feb 10 14:51 assets/pics/profile/photos/thumbs
For some reason the owner/group is still vagrant, even when I chown them. I've tried with sudo chown and by doing sudo -s.
Try modifying your Vagrantfile to include this line, before the end of the Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config| block:
config.vm.synced_folder "/path/to/laravel/app", "/home/vagrant/projects/projectname", :owner => "www-data", :group => "www-data", :mount_options => ["dmode=775", "fmode=664"]
The string "/path/to/laravel/app" must point to dir you're working on outside the Vagrant machine. This should force the file owner and permissions to be the ones you specify for all the project files (so they're not overridden by vagrant). You'll need to restart the VM after you make the change.
How are you doing your chown? It should be
chown USERNAME GROUP -R /path/to/file
Related
I am trying to self host a PHP script called sngine. (facebook clone)
When trying to install it I get an error:
config.php - Required includes folder to be writable for the installation
when I run ls -l I get this: drwxrwxrwx 5 mbeck mbeck 4096 Aug 25 23:00 includes
I don't know why it is saying that it's not writable.
The script is in var/www/{domain name}/
I am on Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) and PHP version: 7.4.22
EDIT:
I found someone saying to run chown www-data:www-data <directory> So I did, and permissions now return drwxrwxrwx 5 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 25 23:00 includes and the error is still there.
Ok, I found it!
I had to run sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/example.com/mydomain/includes/
Now it works!
Running Ubuntu 18.04, Apache/2.4.29, PHP 7.2.10.
I am unable to read/write into my mounted drives from PHP.
this is my sample code:
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$folder = '/media/superuser/HDD4TB_CRYPT/nextcloud_data';
var_dump(ini_get('open_basedir'));
file_put_contents($folder.'/x.txt', "AA");
echo file_get_contents($folder."/x.txt");
phpinfo();
This is output:
string(0) ""
Warning:
file_put_contents(/media/superuser/HDD4TB_CRYPT/nextcloud_data/x.txt):
failed to open stream: Permission denied in
/var/www/html/nextcloud/x.php on line 9
Warning:
file_get_contents(/media/superuser/HDD4TB_CRYPT/nextcloud_data/x.txt):
failed to open stream: Permission denied in
/var/www/html/nextcloud/x.php on line 10
these are folder details:
superuser#SuperTower:/var/www/html/nextcloud$ ls -al /media/superuser/HDD4TB_CRYPT/
total 28
drwx------ 4 superuser superuser 4096 feb 3 20:55 .
drwxr-x---+ 4 root root 4096 feb 2 00:06 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 feb 1 22:49 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 feb 3 21:29 nextcloud_data
I tried editing open_basedir, but this did not help to solve any issues, so I just commented it out. Therefore open_basedir has no value in phpinfo(). Folder is chowned to www-data (this is apache user) and also chmoded to 777.
/media/superuser/ contains folders with mounted drives on my PC. superuser is my username in Ubuntu.
Thanks for any ideas!
P.S.
I have also tried adding a symlink to my folder:
superuser#SuperTower:/var/www/html/nextcloud$ ls -al data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 45 feb 3 21:05 data -> /media/superuser/HDD4TB_CRYPT/nextcloud_data/
and using
$folder = '/var/www/html/nextcloud/data';
but the results are exactly the same.
I also tried adding
<Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/data>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Allow from All
</Directory>
no change in the resulting behavior :/
For some reason no matter what ownership/permissions I set on folder, /media/superuser is never accessible by www-data.
I edited /etc/fstab to mount drive into /opt/ folder and I chowned it to www-data user and group.
Works like a charm now.
I want to open the Moodle's web installer as stated by the document (see step 3). Problem is that, I only see the content of the installer file and not the installer itself! Why such thing happens?
root#qemu:~# ls -l /var/www/html/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 اوت 31 23:35 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 7 mahmood mahmood 4096 سپتام 3 15:42 kar3
drwxr-xr-x 49 www-data www-data 4096 سپتام 15 16:42 moodle
root#qemu:~# which php
/usr/bin/php
root#qemu:~# which php7.0
/usr/bin/php7.0
Your file has .html suffix while PHP files must have .php.
Change to .php and enable PHP on server if not already.
Check here for possible problems.
I am developing symfony inside of a vagrant box. Recently I tried to boost performance (10k latency) and found this article.
It is suggesting to use /dev/shm/ for cache and logs.
This works like a charm, but comes with a problem. Lets say, I create the assets. Then the created files belong to the wrong user, because I am logged in as a vagrant user.
[05:33 ]-[vagrant#machine1]-[/var/www/backend]-[git dippingbird/master]
$ ls -lsah /dev/shm/appname/
total 0
0 drwxrwxr-x 4 vagrant vagrant 80 Mar 21 05:28 ./
0 drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 80 Mar 21 05:28 ../
0 drwxrwxr-x 3 vagrant vagrant 60 Mar 21 05:28 cache/
0 drwxrwxr-x 2 vagrant vagrant 60 Mar 21 05:29 logs/
When I want to visit the page in dev environment, it clearly does not work. It says in the browser:
If I change the permissions to -R 777 it clearly works.
So I figured out, that I want apache run as the vagrant user. But internet documentation is vague. I want to do it via my puphpet config.yaml so it is available for all developers in the team.
Or do I have a braintwist? Why is this permission error not occuring when I am using the dirname(__DIR__).'/var/logs'; for logs / cache.
My website creates files with owner apache:apache when uploading a file, like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 28 14:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 9118 apache apache 233472 Aug 28 14:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 41550 Aug 28 14:07 468075_large.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 26532 Aug 28 14:07 468075_medium.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 50881 Aug 28 14:07 468075_original.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 4316 Aug 28 14:07 468075_small.jpg
Now I am trying to create a file inside the same folder with the user that owns that domain in Plesk and I get permission denied.
How can I have both apache and shell user with permissions over that files?
Thanks.
You have to create a group and put your Plesk and Apache user in it. Than you have to chmod -R g+rwX on your files.
And set the default umask of your system to 002.
If that shell user is not apache but in the same group, you will need to make the folder group writeable.
chown 755 .
As it is right now it won't allow anyone other than apache to add a folder.
Or, you can try to use php to do fopen?
Thanks for the answers but I finally decided to run a cron job that will open a php script from the website using wget.
That way it's the same apache user that already has access to the files. I did this basically because I've got tons of files, about 300GB of images so it would take a lot I think to apply al the new permissions.