[support] FW: Directory permissions list

[Chris W. Parker]

I didn't finish my membership signup before I sent this email. Whoops.
Hopefully the list isn't receiving this a second time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris W. Parker 
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:05 PM
To: 'support at drupal.org'
Subject: Directory permissions list


Hello,

This is really close to a verbatim copy of a post I made on the support
forum last Friday. I'm hoping that some of you mailing list people
didn't see my request.

I've searched on the Drupal site multiple times as well as Google. I
also went to the PHP page defining is_dir(). So far I haven't found the
answer. I suspect 

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I've had to jump over a few permissions hurdles as I installed Drupal
4.7, and now I've come to one that I'm stuck on.

I'm trying to evaluate the e-commerce module but I get the following
error on the Modules page:

warning: is_dir(): Stat failed for sites/default/modules/ecommerce
(errno=13 - Permission denied) in
/var/www/html/drupal-4.7.2/includes/file.inc on line 641.

Originally there was no 'modules' directory in
./drupal-4.7.2/sites/default/ so I created my own and then moved the
'ecommerce' folder there. I've tried setting 'chmod 777' on both the
'modules' directory and the 'ecommerce' directory, but I still get the
same error. Surely 'chmod 777' should work? I've also done 'chown
root.apache ...' where ... is the modules directory and the ecommerce
directory.

What I'd really like to see is a document that details the permissions
that are required for Drupal 4.7. The setup/installation was REALLY easy
but at the same time I'm perplexed by the lack of information on
required directory permissions.
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Thanks everyone!

Chris.