Make all website directories writable (by default)

Hi,

Is there a way to make all site directories writable by default instead of chmod 777 everytime?

My scenario is - joomla.

- A new domain, ftp user & mysql db will be created through ISPConfig3
- Joomla is uploaded via ftp to the /web folder.
- The Joomla setup is ran, and cannot write a configuration file in the root directory (/web).

Can this be done?

Thanks,

Mark.

 

I thought it might be something silly but couldn't figure this out.

thanks

mark.

 

Simple cron-job could do the trick, but messing around with world-writable rights by a knitwit admin was once the cause I managed to get myself root-rights to get my email going again.
Even world-readable is basically dangerous on a shared server. Database passwords in config files from other users are very interesting and very difficult to prevent (without suPHP, suEXEC, basedirs, safepaths, no CGI, no shell, etc, etc, etc, etc).

Paul

 

@ Till,

Actually really stupid but I want to be sure I understand.

For each website select fast - CGI and put a tick in SuEXEC box.

And for your information: Finally I got my FTP- SMTP and WEB server up and running.
I did not give up and succeeded ( there are a few minnor issues )

Thanks for ISPConfig !

 

File/Folder permissions

I have noticed some issues with file/folder permissions on Joomla.
After migrating sites to ISPConfig3 some sites suffer from permissions issues.
New pictures on Virtuemart get incorrect file permissions etc.

umask 0022 is correct so what could cause this?
I'm using CGI, SSI, suEXEC and suPHP on Joomla sites.

Any suggestions?


Sam

 

@ Samtzu

Just like you I am struggling with this.
Tried all kinds of php ( fast-cgi, suphp, mod-php ) and so far did not find a combination that works.
On the other hand I also tried chown on the entire directory and I have reasons to believe it works.
My joomla web is here : /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/joomla ( client1 is me ) so i did this : cd /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web (enter)
chown -R -v -f web1:client1 joomla (enter)

maybe this works for you.
Good luck

 

I have been forced to run these commands on web folder...
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chmod 777 tmp/ -Rf

 

@ Till,

Thank you for this !

To me it seemed easier to upload joomla.tar.gz to the website then go to my linux machine do tar xvzf and after that chown.

I go try to unzip joomla.tar.gz first and than upload all files ( takes a little longer but who cares )

 

Surely you can upload and untar directly on the server.
The only difference is that you have to chown all the files after that to the ftp user and group.

 

@ Till

Again ...

Something that pop up in my dummy brain.

Like in your tut. create a compileuser so if I create a web1 or client1 user with the same password as in ISPConfig and than su web1 or client1 and then tar xvzf ?

Or is this completly crazy talk ?

 

@ Croydon,

This is only possible for me because I have the linux machine here right under my desk
My son ( the only other client ) lives somewhere else so he has to upload all files

Am I right ?

 

Newb...

Till,

Is this true only for Joomla or should suphp always be used?

Or only for cms-type installs...?

Slowhand

 

I'm now wondering if my problems are actually OpenVZ related. I have noticed that su in Proxmox's Debian Lenny does not seem to work. Could this be an issue since we have built our Joomlas on top of ISPConfig3 that lies on top of Proxmox/OpenVZ.

Anyway the problems are not clearly defined. Difficult to make conclusions.

 

On the host or in the guest systems?

 

On the guest.