Forums / Setup & design / File Permissions problems when editing CSS
Richard Lundberg
Thursday 13 December 2007 3:08:16 pm
I have recently installed Exponential 4.0 and was advised to fix file permissions when finetuning
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cd /var/www chmod -R ug+rwx settings settings/override var var/storage var/cache settings/siteaccess settings/siteaccess/admin designchown -R www-data:www-data settings settings/override var var/storage var/cache settings/siteaccess settings/siteaccess/admin design</i>
However by changing ownership I can no longer edit CSS files and upload by ftp as I no longer have the correct permissions.
In previous installs (3.7) I never received this message, and on checking the directories, the ownership resides with the site owner, thus I have edited the CSS without problems and the sites are fine.
Is there a way around this in 4.0? Can I revert ownership of these directories back to the site owner and not cause any issues. If not, how can I edit CSS files?
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Softriva .com
Thursday 20 December 2007 12:24:04 am
I am not sure if this will help but you might give it a shot. Check if you are a member of group www-data. In Ubuntu Linux I do this
cat /etc/group|grep www-data
then I get
www-data:x:33:hab
Where hab is me.
paul bir
Thursday 20 December 2007 6:39:27 am
In wordpress I also had this problem. What I did was cmod carp to 755.Hope that helps.
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Friday 21 December 2007 12:34:46 am
sorted... thanks for the help
Geert van der Heide
Sunday 20 January 2008 11:10:15 am
i have also the same problem, how do you fixed it?
Sunday 27 January 2008 4:24:59 pm
Hi Gert,
I have a VPS so it was easy to set up group permissions to edit the CSS files. I'm not sure how one could do it if you are on a shared hosting package.