[support] mkdir permissions issue

[Tom Holmes Jr.]

I think we have a little misunderstanding, and that is my fault.

There are three areas where I dealt with permissions:
1) The old web-site to be imported ... this directory and files need at
least to be readable.
This directory I changed to 0777 and it didn't solve my problem.

2) The files/imported directory ... of course we need permission to
create directories and files here.
I could do this (create directories and files) as root or as another user.
That's why I was confused.  I could create directories as either a user,
or as root ... but PHP couldn't.
This directory I changed to 0777 and it didn't solve my problem.

3) In the sites/all/modules/importhtml  .... I unzipped the modules into
the right place.
I even changed the user/group so it would be the same as the rest of the
site.
I didn't even bother to check the permissions of the individual files
... I left them as they were unzipped.
Even as root .... if a file is set to be not executable ... not even
root can run it.
So, I when to all the files in this module and  made them executable ...
that finally solved the problem.

For future sake ... on a linux system ... when I unzip a module and
change the user/grp ...
is 0660 the usual permissions to set?

Thanks!
                                    Tom

Jason Flatt wrote:
> If you were actually setting the files to 0777 with chmod, as you indicated in 
> your previous e-mail, then those files were set to be executable. On my 
> systems, none of my PHP files are set to 0777. They're set to 0660.
>
> On Wednesday, January 9 2008 8:36:21 pm Tom Holmes Jr. wrote:
>   
>> Ah ... it turns out, that on Linux, files need to be set 'executable'
>> in order to execute php scripts ...
>>
>> who knew ...?
>>
>> Tom Holmes Jr. wrote:
>>     
>>> I am using the Import HTML Module and it works to a point.   I have HTML
>>> Tidy, XML, and XSLT configured within PHP/Drupal.
>>> I can pick the source directory, I can see the structure of the web-site
>>> I want to import, and I am selecting one file to test.
>>> I can get this error message:
>>> warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir
>>> <http://localhost/labmice/admin/import_html/function.mkdir>]: Permission
>>> denied in
>>> /opt/apache/www/labmice/sites/all/modules/import_html/coders_php_library/
>>> file-routines.inc on line 164.
>>>
>>> I have a files/imported directory already created under Drupal.   The
>>> permissions for this is chmod 0777 and it is set for public.
>>> I am running my Apache web-server on my system as root ....  and /tmp is
>>> owned by root ...
>>> So, I am thinking all the permissions should be fine ... but for some
>>> reason I get this error message?
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what it is I setup wrong, or what I am doing wrong?
>>> If anyone needs anymore information ... please let me know.   Thanks!
>>>
>>>                     Tom
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