Hi there! I'm almost getting crazy with setting the owner, file permisions of my site. After getting ISPConfig 2 working using the superb How-to guide in Ubuntu 8.04, I installed Joomla 1.5. During the install I had to change configuration.php to 777 in order to be able to write on that file all my joomla settings. Then I went to install a module and it throws the message: 1)I've changed all file and directory permissions to 777 inside the "web1" directory just to see if it works but I get the same message. 2)Tried using joomla ftp layer without any luck. 3) I've tried to change the owner off all files and directories to "www-data:www-data" to see if it solves but, again the same message. 4) I've tried suPHP following the guide to Ubuntu 7.04 - I'm not sure if I can use it as I'm executing php as an apache module. After disabling the php5 module from apache the apache server wouldn't start. Then I proced with the suPHP compilation and it failed again although it generated the .so file (????). So I modified the httpd.conf file (wich was empty) and put the line stated on the how-to. After that, the apache server wouldn't start. So I enabled again php5 module and finally I get it up. I do not know if this is the right way of installing suPHP. And I do not know what to do next... Can someone help me give me ideas on what to test? Some hits Many thanks. Regards.
Joomla 1.5 has a FTP layer, you can configure it trough the joomla setup to circumvent permission problems.
I did it and still couldn't install any component. It gave me the same error. I noticed that some directories and files stills are owned by www-data user instead of web1... user. I'll check this and make sure all files and directories are owned by web1... I'll update this thread with the results. Thanks.
I finally get it working. Here are the steps I followed: 1) disabled joomla ftp layer 2) All the directories listed in Help->Info->Permissions I changed it to 0777. Regards.
