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[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 Mar 2010 13:24:49 arygroup@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 31/03/10 14:15, Bob Williams wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 Mar 2010 02:11:00 Michael Harnden wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 05:57:18 pm Bob Williams wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've recently installed Joomla, a CMS website design program. I have
> > > > successfully setup the LAMP server, and copied the Joomla files to a
> > > > subdirectory under /srv/www/. The installation ran without difficulty,
> > > > and I can login to the localhost website as admin. But when I try to
> > > > edit stuff, Joomla tells me that its configuration files and all the
> > > > other files, such as *.css are unwriteable.
> > > >
> > > > I have changed the ownership of the joomla directory to myself and
> > > > group users, so now all directories in that tree have permissions 755
> > > > and files have permissions 644.
> > > >
> > > > As my user, I can create a file in kate and save it to the
> > > > /srv/www/joomla directory, so it is writeable by me. So why can't
> > > > Joomla admin, running in an instance of (any) web browser in my
> > > > userspace, write to its own files?
> > > >
> > > > Bob
> > >
> > > Hi Bob,
> > > Did you use the Joomla installer, or copy the files? What I do for my
> > > local installations of Joomla is make myself a member of the www group
> > > and make the files and directories I need to edit writeable by www. By
> > > default apache on runs as the wwwrun user and www group so I am guessing
> > > that is why Joomla is complaining about not being to write to files.
> > > Mike
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I used the Joomla web browser installer, but it was unable to write to
> > configuration.php at the end of that process, so I had to do the
> > copy'n'paste workaround.
> >
> > I've followed your advice of adding myself to the www group, and changing
> > ownership and write permissions to that group, and it seems to be working
> > well, now.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Bob
>
> I know it's not correct in general, but I make my Apache run as me to
> avoid changes rights any time I copy/extract files from somewhere.
>
> You can set it in: /etc/apache2/uid.conf
>
> I'm not sure about XAMPP, it may use it's own apache installation.
Thanks. More useful information. What I've done above seems to be working so 
I'll stick with it for now. I'm only going to be running Apache as a localhost 
server while I practise using Joomla. Once I'm up to speed, I'll be using 
someone else's server when I go public with my site, so there'll be another 
set of permissions to sort out then ;)

Bob
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