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[sunrise Friend sunriseJoin date: February 2007Posts: 920Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 103 Thanked: 166 times in 114 posts]

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I made a site, http://www.jonas-christy.com on a local machine, and uplaoded the site. After some small adjustments all seemed fine. I use 1.5.7 and Fagus template. It runs on Apache 1.3 and PHP 5.2.

All seemed fine until I needed to change things, uplaod pictures. I looked for solutions and finally looked at System Info/Directory Permissions. They should all be Writable, but they are all, except for one, Unwritable. I look at the directories and they are all 755. I checked other sites and directories there at 755 show up as readable. I am confused and in need of some help or insight into this.

Is there anyone who would know what the problem could be?

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#285784

This all depends on how your server is set up and who ‘Owns’ the files. Generally whoever uploads the files owns them but this depends on server config. The files may be owned by your FTP account or your Apache user account. After normal installation the files that Joomla uploads are owned by your apache account.

Even if these have the same username and password they are still different accounts.

If after installation Joomla is showing unwriteable even with 755 perms then you will have to enable Joomlas FTP layer. With this enabled Joomla uses your FTP user account to access and write to folders and files within your web directory.

When you were installing the site and it did the checks did it say configuration file writable: NO?
Did you have to manually install or configure configuration.php after installation?

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#285785

ahh I see now that you made the site locally and then uploaded. Did you just copy it up?

Install Joomlapack on the test site and make a backup. This backup can then be used to install Joomla on the live server the same way you would a quickstart. It may solve your problem.

[sunrise Friend sunriseJoin date: February 2007Posts: 920Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 103 Thanked: 166 times in 114 posts]

#285788

Hi scotty,

Thanks a lot for getting back to me. This sounds like it coud be the problem. I will try it a let you know how it goes.

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#285802

In any case, when you just need to upload some files once and not constantly need the access to some certain folder, you can mostly set the permissions to 777 for the upload and set those back to 755 when you are finished.

I say mostly because sometimes the function inside your FTP Program will not work and you still get permission errors. In this case you can simply do this via JoomlaXplorer or eXtplorer inside the Joomla admin. In some rare cases you also get there an error message, then you should try the previously mentioned solutions.

Both programs are available on http://extensions.joomla.org and have to be installed as usual components.

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