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-----Original Message----- From: Chris W. Parker Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:05 PM To: 'support@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

==== 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. ====

Thanks everyone!

Chris.