[0.0] Re: [Deskaheh-sysadmin] Need help with Hamilton site, unable to create info doc

[john milton]

Hmmm... no new errors appear, but the new info doc is still not there, 
anyone got an idea why?

pabs wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 19:17 -0500, john milton wrote:
> 
> 
>>I admin the Hamilton site.
>>I just tried to create a new info doc, title is: Read "The Hammer"
>>Here.
>>No problems creating it, and it appears in the editorial interface as
>>it should, but it does not appear on the home page in the info doc
>>section. This is bad.
> 
> 
> I've no idea about dada...but perhaps it is a permissions problem?
> 
> 
>>Could not write to directory at /home/www/dadaIMC/hamilton. Incorrect 
>>file ownership or permissions. Please be sure that the user Apache
>>runs as has write permission to all of the dadaIMC directories.
>>
>>Could not write to directory at /home/www/dadaIMC/hamilton/styles. 
>>Incorrect file ownership or permissions. Please be sure that the user 
>>Apache runs as has write permission to all of the dadaIMC directories.
> 
> 
> Well, it means that apache/dada needs to be able to write to these
> directories, for whatever reason.
> 
> The permissions are:
> drwxr-sr-x   2 jmilton  hamilton    512 Apr  6  2004 styles
> 
> According to ps aux | grep http, apache runs as the www user.
> 
> According to /etc/group, the www user is in the hamilton group.
> 
> So, I suggest that you chown g+w each file/dir that apache complains
> about. I'm not sure whether you have permission enough to do this, if
> not, send an email for any more you encounter and a sudoer will do it.
> As a start, I've done /home/www/dadaIMC/hamilton
> and /home/www/dadaIMC/hamilton/styles.
> 

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