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February 09, 2012, 01:12:03 PM

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athena
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« on: February 21, 2009, 03:13:59 PM »
The Smarty template installation is requesting the following...

chown nobody:nobody /web/www.example.com/guestbook/templates_c/
chmod 770 /web/www.example.com/guestbook/templates_c/

chown nobody:nobody /web/www.example.com/guestbook/cache/
chmod 770 /web/www.example.com/guestbook/cache/


I've substituted the correct directories into their example, but I'm still getting an error saying that the directory is "not writable by the web server user"... is there something in our VPS setup that would prevent what they're requesting from working?
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Mark Cale
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 03:17:50 PM »
Hi,

Have you tired to use either 755 or even 644 to see what results are from using either?
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 05:19:43 PM »
The only way I can it to work is if I set 777 which I know I probably don't want.

I'm wondering if it's the "nobody" business that is causing the problem.
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2009, 10:21:30 PM »
Quote from: athena on February 21, 2009, 05:19:43 PM
The only way I can it to work is if I set 777 which I know I probably don't want.

I'm wondering if it's the "nobody" business that is causing the problem.

I think your guess is correct. By defaul Apache runs under apache username in VPS, so you would change nobody to apache in the commands you issues to see if it helps to get rid of 777 permissions.
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