[SOLVED] recursive write permission during installation on Fedora 18

[alain.roger]

Hi,

 

i've just finished to install a brand new webserver based on Fedora 18/apache 2.4.4/MySQL 5.5.30/openssl 1.0.1e and PHP 5.4.14.

 

during installation of Prestashop 1.5.4 i got the following error screen

 

 

so for testing purpose i set all files and folders to 0777 but nothing changed, then i change user:group to apache...but once again nothing changed.

 

any idea where could be located the problem ?

 

thx.

 

Alain

[benjamin utterback]

Hi Alain, it seems like a server configuration error. You can try 755 as well, but 777 should definitely work.

[alain.roger]

Unfortunatelly no... i already tried it.

usually i use 644 for files and 705 for folders but here i don't know what's wrong.

[alain.roger]

Ok, so for those who have the same issue, i have a solution.

 

in fact the problem is located at 2 places.

 

1. on some Linux web server, owner of web site (files/folders) should be apache. so as a group and user >> chown -R apache:apache

 

2. on some linux server like Fedora SELinux Alert Browser also play a role and to allow apache to perform some actions read/write, change permissions etc... you need to allow them.

 

so to check what is needed to do on "httpd" you can use:

getsebool -a | grep httpd

 

or directly:

setsebool -P httpd_enable_cgi on
setsebool -P httpd_unified on
setsebool -P httpd_builtin_scripting on

 

now you can give a 644 to all files and 705 to folders. It should work perfectly.

 

Hope it will help you

 

Have a nice day.

 

Alain

[benjamin utterback]

Hi Alain, thank you for sharing your diagnoses and solution. I'll go ahead and mark this thread as SOLVED, thank you for choosing PrestaShop.