[support] Moving files directory?

[Larry Garfield]

It needs to be read/write/executable to whatever user apache runs as.  Ideally 
that would mean putting apache and the owner of the files in the same group 
and then setting permissions to 0775 instead, but on most shared hosts you 
can't actually do that so you have to use 777.  

On Sunday 18 November 2007, Roy Smith wrote:
> It turns out, the problem was not that the path changed, but that the
> permissions were wrong.  Setting the permission on ~/sitename/files/
> to 0777 (i.e. world-writable) made the warning go away.  On the other
> hand, it doesn't seem right that a directory should have to be left
> wide open like that.  Is that really how it's supposed to be?
>
> On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Fred Jones wrote:
> >> Now, I get complaints that "The directory /files/ is not writable".
> >>  Only now have I noticed the warning, "Changing this location
> >> after the
> >> site has been in use will cause problems so only change this
> >> setting on
> >> an existing site if you know what you are doing." Ooops.  What do
> >> I need
> >> to do to fix the problem?
> >
> > Did you try putting files back into ~/sitename/drupal-5.3/ ? Meaning:
> >
> > ~/sitename/drupal-5.3/files/
> >
> > Leave all else in ~/sitename/ and just move files.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Fred
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> roy at panix.com


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