Author Topic: Why chmod -R a+rwx files? (Read 1693 times)

pdowling · September 07, 2010, 05:15:50 pm

In step 7 of the upgrade script...

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+3.2#UpgradeDrupalSitesto3.2-7.Unpackthelatestpackageandverifypermissions

...it says to do this...

cd <drupal home>/sites/default
chmod -R a+rwx files

Why is it necessary to give read/write/execute permissions to ALL files and folders under the files directory? Really seems like overkill. Then it gives no instructions to put the permissions back to something reasonable.

Were these instructions intentional?

Donald Lobo · September 07, 2010, 07:24:15 pm

U need to set the value so that the apache user can create files and directories under that directory

its hard to generalize / be more specific since different folks have apache running as different user/groups. hence the method is quite loose but applicable to pretty much all installs

can u check and see what drupal wants and how it does the needed checks?

thanx

lobo

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Author Topic: Why chmod -R a+rwx files? (Read 1693 times)

pdowling

Why chmod -R a+rwx files?

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