bdogi
February 6, 2013, 5:09pm
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After updating to 1.10.1 I get the following:
Piwik couldn’t write to some directories.
Try to Execute the following commands on your server, to allow Write access on these directories:
chown -R www-data:www-data /home/rs/public_html/track
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp/templates_c/
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp/cache/
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp/assets/
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp/tcpdf/
However, nothing I can do seems to fix it. I have followed those instructions both via SSH as well as my FTP client. Nothing changes
I’ve been trying to fix this for a long time and finally decided I needed some help
I hope someone else has seen this and fixed it.
Thanks!
what user are you assigning as owner?
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 5:16pm
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I assigned the root user as the owner.
what if you assign apache or www-data as owners?
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 5:29pm
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I don’t seem to have a www-data user, but tried apache with no success.
there were a bunch of errors with the search engine PNGs when assiging that user, though. Essentially all of this format:
chown: changing ownership of ‘/home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack/plugins/Referers/searchEngines/www.search.ch.png’ : Operation not permitted
I’m guessing that is happening for all PNGs in that directory
how did you uload? Which ftp client did you use?
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 5:39pm
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I used WS_FTP. Same I have always used to update Piwik without problems for years
can you copy the exact chown command you use for this instance? Im curious to see the structure of it. What unix flavour you running?
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 5:50pm
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The server OS is: CentOS 5.9
I’ve never had to do the chown command before for Piwik… always just worked (did have to change permissions to 755 on some directories, though)
Here is the chown command:
chown -r apache /home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack
Hi i think you need just one little tweak
chown -R apache /home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack
Give that a try
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 6:00pm
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sorry, the R was capitalized. I hit the up arrow to be sure of that, but it was.
the group of folders giving you an issue.
chmod -R 0755 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp
try
chmod -R 777 /home/rs/public_html/track/tmp
see if that help
add the -v to give you verbose results in case there is an error
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 6:24pm
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I get a bunch of errors with that one… I used the following command:
chmod -Rv 777 /home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack/tmp
I got the following (recursive through the directories):
chmod: changing permisssions of ‘/home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack/tmp’: Operation not permitted
Then followed through to: /assets/, /tcpdf/, /cache/, /templates_c/
ok maybe just sudo the commands again teh -v to show if any errors.
sudo chown -R apache /home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 6:34pm
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ok, I’m going beyond my expertise here… but gave it a try
I got the following:
rs is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported
(rs is the user)
if you type
su
does it ask for a password? If so enter it and then run
chown -R apache /home/rs/public_html/sensitrack/ptrack
etc others
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 6:48pm
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The sudo command asked for a password, but not this one.
sudo said:
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local system administrator. it usually boils down to these three things:
#1 ) Respect the privacy of others.#2 ) Think before you type.#3 ) With great power comes great responsibility.
Then I had to type in the password
Using the su command, I got:
-bash: /bin/su: Permission denied
odd i would have thought either way you could run commnads as root.
Which isp is this maybe a tech needs to help you here.
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 7:02pm
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I think I am not as root… I think I did login the last time with the rs user (non-root). Let me try to re-login to ssh
bdogi
February 6, 2013, 7:05pm
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My bad… I was site root, but not server root (probably doesn’t make sense, i guess)… I’m a windows user mostly
ok, so that command worked (SU, then chown), but nothing has changed.
I even tried creating and installing it in another directory. No difference at all.