Permissions question

[tatty27]

Hi

I am having a few problems that I am convinced are permissions related but I want to proove it before I try to work out where the permissions aren't quite correct.

Would there being any diverse effect (besides the obvious security issues) to changing the permissions to the whole sugar installation directory to 777?

tia

[Angel]

No.

Whenever I run into permissions issues, I usually do the same then once everything is operating, I start applying restrictions.

The biggest concern would be if your Sugar instance faces the outside world and someone were to hack it to gain access through Apache or something like that. Then again, were that to happen, there are probably bigger issues to deal with.

[crmsiva]

Hi

You can use chown as an alternate to chmod.

[tatty27]

Heck, I did that and now I can't get into sugar, I get an internal server error

The complete error is...

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@schickuk.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.schickuk.com Port 80

Please help....

[Angel]

This looks more like an issue with PHP not functioning correctly or not enabled for the directory in question.

Try the phpinfo() tip referenced here: http://cheleguanaco.blogspot.com/200...lified_19.html

[tatty27]

It was working fine till I changed the permissions...

[tatty27]

Does anyone know what the default permissions are? I have 644 for files, and 755 for directories, is that correct?

[Angel]

I thought you were going to change it to 777 and proceed from there...........

[ros.vol]

Does anyone know what the default permissions are? I have 644 for files, and 755 for directories, is that correct?

Yes. By default it uses this permissions.

[tatty27]

I thought you were going to change it to 777 and proceed from there...........

I did

On the server the log says...

[Thu Jul 16 14:34:55 2009] [error] [client 86.133.72.248] SoftException in Application.cpp:252: File "/home/tatty27/public_html/sugar/index.php" is writeable by group

Does this imply that the permissions are wrong on the index.php?

Thanks