Permission issues?

[SteveW]

I have just installed Joomla on my VPS with Plesk panel 10. I have three issues:

1. when I start my site I get: 'JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected' - error message on the front page
2. there are a number of directories which have been flagged up as unwritable when they should be writable
3. i am unable to update my configuration.php

All of this points to permissions but I just don't know where to start. I been trying to fix this all day and its driving me nuts. I think there was an option in previous versions of plesk which addressed this (fastcgi??) but that option is no longer in the newer version e.g. 10 of plesk.

 

[CarlaC]

Did you have any luck with this

Hi,

Which version of Joomla are you using and did you find a solution? I am wanting to install Joomla 1.6

 

[SteveW]

Permissions issues

Hi Carla - we did fix it. Our version of Joomla is 1.5 although I wouldn't think that 1.6 will be a lot more different on this occasion.

At first we chmoded all the affected directories e.g the ones showing up under system info in Joomla as unwriteable (using putty) to 777 which I wasn't overly happy with since I think that doing this is a security risk.

However I think that we found it much easier to work with permissions by installing suphp (I'm pretty sure that doing this really helped us a lot of permissions issues we were hitting). I've included how to do this below:

How to Install suPHP
1) install httpd-devel and compiler tools:
yum install httpd-devel gcc gcc-c++ make

2) Download suPHP source code and extract it
wget http://www.suphp.org/download/suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz
cd suphp-0.7.1

3) Now compile suPHP
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-apache-user=apache --with-logfile=/var/log/httpd/suphp_log --with-setid-mode=paranoid --sysconfdir=/etc --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-php=/usr/bin/php-cgi --enable-SUPHP_USE_USERGROUP=yes

make
make install

4) Add the line to httpd.conf
LoadModule suphp_module modules/mod_suphp.so

5) Restard httpd


I hope this helps Carla (also take a look at the chown command and be aware of who owns what (files & directories) when you try and manipulate them).

 

[Amin Taheri]

mod ruid2 does the same thing but supposedly is a bit easier to manage and performs better.