I'm creating a site which I'm going to host on an Ubuntu Server. I have a user registration form on my site, which creates a user and a folder for that user (if filled out correctly). The form in handled by PHP and I'm running Apache 2 on the server. When I run the code on my laptop the folder is created, but when I run the same code on the server the folder is not there. I guess that it has something to do with permisssion. How can I tell apache that the code should have write permission in a specific folder called "users" located in /var/www/mysite/public/users/ ???
Try using chmod command that provides folder permission. Something like
chmod 777 -R foldername
If security is not an issue I would suggest:
chmod 775 -R /var/www/
chown -R [your_user]:www-data /var/www/
So both apache2 (www-data) and you can edit folders and files inside /var/www (or /var/www/html if this is your folder).
Notice that this may have issues with git and other tools that capture folder permissions (eg with git you may commit files with 775).
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Everytime I use file_put_contents in my PHP script on DigitalOcean's LAMP server, I get this error message:
file_put_contents(test_digitalocean.json): failed to open stream:
Permission denied in /var/www/html/test_digitalocean.php
How can I properly set permissions?
I access my scripts by entering the server's IP address followed by /test_digitalocean.php into the browser.
All scripts are uploaded to /var/www/html/
If I look at www folder from FileZilla, I can see that the permissions are 775 with the owner and group both as www-data.
Your web server needs to have write permissions on the file. Apache on any linux system runs as some particular user. You can find out which user by putting this script on your server and accessing it:
<?php
passthru("whoami");
On Debian/Ubuntu, this user is www-data. So the directory or file you'd want to write would need to have write privileges granted to that group. These commands might be useful, but will require root or sudo privileges:
sudo chgrp www-data /path/to/file.json
sudo chmod 664 /path/to/file.json
Or, if you want to grant write access to a directory where you might upload many files, try this:
sudo chgrp www-data /path/to/directory
sudo chmod 775 /path/to/directory
I would NOT run that command on your /var/www/html directory if you can help it. It's generally a bad idea security-wise to grant apache write permissions inside your web root.
I have this Laravel project on my Ubuntu machine, and i accidentally gave chmod -R 777 to Ubuntu root. I did manage to cancel it, but it was to late. Now, like half of my root is green.
I have nothing useful on this machine except that Laravel project, and I have no problem with re-installing it. Is there a way to rebuild it? If not, when i backup my project, how to give it normal permission?
I've been through this before
Just run
sudo chmod 0644 -R * in your application's root directory
it will set the default permission level to -rw-r--r-- (0644). As new laravel application comes with this permission level.
and you need to give write permission to storage folder and its files so run
sudo chmod 0755 storage and sudo chmod 0755 storage/* -R
You are good to go now. and for more about file and its permission level, I would recommend you to go through this https://askubuntu.com/questions/638796/what-is-meaning-of-755-permissions-in-samba-share it will help.
When you reinstall the project it will gain the regular permissions. Remember that you only have to give 777 permissions to the "storage" folder.
And as far as I know, there is no way to set your Ubuntu files as they were before.
Just change and update permissions of public/ folder inside your Laravel app/ folder to 0775, and then change permissions of files inside public_html/ folder to 0644. Also what is worth of noticing is user:group. What server and how do you run PHP handler?
I'm a newbie in Linux, just installed ubuntu 14.04 and wanted to install WAMP (MAMP), I followed a youtube tutorial to install php5, apache2, mysql and phpmyadmin. Installed successfully both http://localhost and http://localhost/phpmyadmin works fine logged in successfully.
now I wanted to add some files and folders to apache www folder which is located at /var/www but cant create files or folders. I'm a Windows user where I usually keep all my PHP work in www folder.
I would like to know if there is a way to use any-other folder as www folder or how to create folders and files in that www folder. I reckon its permission issues, since being a newbie don't know how to fix that.. please help
Regards
Ubuntu 14.04 runs apache as user www-data, you can change to this user using the command in terminal (shell)
sudo su
This will make you root and have access to /var/www directory, and you will be able to create files and directories. Say you had a directory of images containing img1.jpg, img2.jpg, etc. in say /home/user1/images
as root you could
sudo su <- change to the document folder
cd /var/www <- change to the document folder
cp /home/user1/images/ . <- copy what you need to copy
chown -r www-data images/ <- give the web server read/write permission to the folder / files
which will let you do access the images via a browser via the url
http://localhost/images/img1.jpg
The reason is that apache runs under different user (given your distro most likely www-data), while /var/www belongs either to the user or root.
So if you want to allow apache to write somewhere you have to give it permissions.
Since it is not good practice to give apache full permission to your disk, usually you would have a special directory where it can upload data.
For example creating directory
/var/www/myProject/uploaded
and then giving permission to all to write there
chmod 777 /var/www/myProject/uploaded
Alternatively you can change the owner/group with chown.
Hi anyone can help me for this issue , I have developed a site and it is hosted on my development server but now my client wants to move it to his own production server, and my client doesn't have access to his cpanel for this server. I only have the ftp access, so I have added his database in my own development server, while in development I used my amazon s3 for storing the images , when I push to production I loss the amazon plugin . I can't able to install the plugin , so I moved to upload once again to those images through WordPress, now I face this error while uploading an image : Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/07. Is its parent directory writable by the server? , and change the ftp file permission access to 755 and changed the uploads file permission to 777 , Still I am not able to upload the images, can some one help me for this issue.
This is a problem of the Apache permissions. I had this problem and i broke my mind for many days to understand what was happening.
The correct way (USE IT):
(the solution that i used, and worked)
You need to give Rewrite permissions to the Apache.
For Ubuntu:
Run via ssh: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/the/wordpress/directory
For Centos:
Run via ssh: chown -R apache.apache /var/www/the/wordpress/directory
The Wrong Way (I don't recommend it, but works...)
You can change the permissions to 777 in all the paths that Wordpress need to change. wp-content/plugins recursively on folders to solve install/update problems, and wp-content/uploads recursively on folders to solve upload media problems.
Never use it because you are giving permissions to anyone change your files. A open way for the crackers that don't like you.
run these command to provide proper file permissions
Add existing 'ubuntu' user to 'www-data' group
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu;
Set the ownership of the files/directories
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/;
Set group ownership inheritance
sudo chmod g+s /var/www/html/;
Set the permissions of the files/directories
sudo find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
sudo find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
Give write permissions to the group (for editing files via FTP)
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html/;
I've installed Codeigniter on Linux CentOS.
I extracted everything to my web directory, set everything up, and everything worked fine.
Next I moved my application/ and system/ folders outside the web directory, and then provide full path to them in index.php. The folders I provided resolve fine from the command line, but I continue to get the error:
Your application folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php
Here are the full path locations:
$system_path = '/data/utilities/codeigniter/system/';
$application_folder = '/data/utilities/codeigniter/application/';
First, is utilitities a typo only here, or in your index.php, too?
Second, does Apache have full access to /data, utilities, and codeigniter?
What are the permissions of the folders? The Apache user might not have access to those folders. You can find out the permission by using the command ls -la and then set the owner or group to the Apache user chown www-data:www-data -R /data/utilitities/codeigniter/system/
and chown www-data:www-data -R /data/utilities/codeigniter/application/ (Assuming that the Apache user is www-data).
Permissions were not set correctly... silly mistake. I did this to fix it:
sudo chmod -R 755 /data/utilities/codeigniter/