Perfect setup Joomla with ISPConfig ?

[falko]

Í think the problem is that /home/www/web6/web belongs to the admin user you created for that web and the web group, but not to the Apache user and group. That's why Apache can't write to this directory.

You can either make this directory world-writable (chmod 777), or you make a

chown <Apache_user>:<Apache_group> /home/www/web6/web

[bogdinator]

Here is the output you wanted till

ls -la /home/www/web6/phptmp/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx  2 bruce web6  80 2006-01-13 23:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 bruce web6 368 2006-01-17 18:10 ..
-r--------  1 root  root   0 2005-12-20 13:17 .no_delete

bruce is the user I set up as web admin.

Thst depend on what you host on your server. If your server is only for your own websites, then you can simply set the directories world writable.

out of your comment till I can see that it is not that harmless to give these directories writable attribute.

[bogdinator]

I think I'll hit the nail on the head soon in respect to my problem. I think it has to do with permissions the folder joomla got when I unpacked it. Just a small question besides my issue:
I had a user bogdan on the server before installation of ISPConfig (this is me and the user who did unpacked joomla). I deleted user bogdan from the server and wanted to create the user with the same username with ISPConfig in web6 but the system just keeps saying that the user name is assigned already. Weird isn't it? Does ISPConfig remembers system users (even these who have been deleted)?

I found "bogdan" in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/users. Can I delete it from their? What sort of users is hold in this file? After ISPConfig installation I made a couple of new system users but they are not in this file.

[till]

Originally Posted by bogdinator

I think I'll hit the nail on the head soon in respect to my problem. I think it has to do with permissions the folder joomla got when I unpacked it. Just a small question besides my issue:
I had a user bogdan on the server before installation of ISPConfig (this is me and the user who did unpacked joomla). I deleted user bogdan from the server and wanted to create the user with the same username with ISPConfig in web6 but the system just keeps saying that the user name is assigned already. Weird isn't it? Does ISPConfig remembers system users (even these who have been deleted)?

I found "bogdan" in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/users. Can I delete it from their? What sort of users is hold in this file?

Yes, ISPConfig has to remember all users that where present at installation time to make sure that you cant create a duplicate user in ISPConfig. Simply remove the user in the file /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/users.

After ISPConfig installation I made a couple of new system users but they are not in this file.

Enter the users you created manually to the file /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/users to prevet problems in ISPConfig.

[falko]

Did you have a look at my post? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=11

Please post the output of

ls -la /path/to/joomla_directory

[bogdinator]

Sorry falco it must have slipped throug my eyes Here is the output you wanted:

total 127
drwxr-xr-x  15 bogdan web6   848 2006-01-18 18:36 .
drwxrwxr-x   7 bogdan web6   264 2006-01-18 18:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x   9 bogdan web6   360 2006-01-18 18:36 administrator
drwxr-xr-x   2 bogdan web6    80 2006-01-18 18:36 cache
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6 40159 2006-01-15 19:41 CHANGELOG.php
drwxr-xr-x  16 bogdan web6   504 2006-01-18 18:36 components
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  4001 2005-12-22 16:16 configuration.php-dist
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  3429 2006-01-04 03:14 COPYRIGHT.php
drwxr-xr-x   2 bogdan web6   112 2006-01-18 18:36 editor
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  3053 2005-12-22 16:16 globals.php
drwxr-xr-x   3 bogdan web6  2528 2006-01-18 18:36 help
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6   890 2005-12-29 08:28 htaccess.txt
drwxr-xr-x   6 bogdan web6   904 2006-01-18 18:36 images
drwxr-xr-x  10 bogdan web6  1256 2006-01-18 18:36 includes
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  4574 2006-01-13 09:47 index2.php
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  6843 2006-01-15 14:01 index.php
drwxr-xr-x   3 bogdan web6   496 2006-01-18 18:36 installation
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  4374 2005-12-22 16:16 INSTALL.php
drwxr-xr-x   2 bogdan web6   184 2006-01-18 18:36 language
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6 17977 2005-12-22 16:16 LICENSE.php
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6   710 2005-12-22 16:16 mainbody.php
drwxr-xr-x   7 bogdan web6   208 2006-01-18 18:36 mambots
drwxr-xr-x   2 bogdan web6   112 2006-01-18 18:36 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 bogdan web6  1296 2006-01-18 18:36 modules
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  2474 2005-12-22 16:16 offlinebar.php
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6  3777 2005-12-22 16:16 offline.php
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6   705 2005-12-22 16:16 pathway.php
-rw-r--r--   1 bogdan web6   286 2005-12-22 16:16 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x   5 bogdan web6   200 2006-01-18 18:36 templates

I got rid of nearly all error messages but the folders inside of the joomla installation are still not writabe for the application itself

administrator/backups/  Unwriteable
  administrator/components/  Unwriteable
  administrator/modules/  Unwriteable
  administrator/templates/  Unwriteable
  cache/  Unwriteable
  components/  Unwriteable
  images/  Unwriteable
  images/banners/  Unwriteable
  images/stories/  Unwriteable
  language/  Unwriteable
  mambots/  Unwriteable
  mambots/content/  Unwriteable
  mambots/editors/  Unwriteable
  mambots/editors-xtd/  Unwriteable
  mambots/search/  Unwriteable
  media/  Unwriteable
  modules/  Unwriteable
  templates/  Unwriteable

What can I do... make them all writeable to everybody... Isn't is dangerous
What about the safe mode in php settings. Is it really so bed for joomla to leave it on. Have a webcalendar running which needs it to be on... dilemma

[falko]

Originally Posted by bogdinator

What can I do... make them all writeable to everybody... Isn't is dangerous

You can either make thedirectories world-writable (chmod 777), or you make a

chown <Apache_user>:<Apache_group> /path/to/directory

If you trust your other users on the server (e.g. because they have no idea what Linux is...), then this is ok. You can switch on PHP Safe Mode for all the other sites on the server.

Originally Posted by bogdinator

What about the safe mode in php settings. Is it really so bed for joomla to leave it on. Have a webcalendar running which needs it to be on... dilemma

If it's your own site, then you can turn Safe Mode off. Also, if you trust the owner of the Joomla site.

[bogdinator]

Thank you falko,
just one question. You said that I can switch php safe mode for all the other sites. How do you mean it? I thougt it is a global setting - once it is switched on it is switched on for all the sites on the server. Mybe it is too obvious for you but I am not very experienced in this things

[till]

Originally Posted by bogdinator

Thank you falko,
just one question. You said that I can switch php safe mode for all the other sites. How do you mean it? I thougt it is a global setting - once it is switched on it is switched on for all the sites on the server. Mybe it is too obvious for you but I am not very experienced in this things

In ISPConfig, you can enable disable php safemode for each website. have a look at the website settings on the basis tab.

[bogdinator]

Thanks a lot. But I still have the very last question
In this thread you were allways talking that i need to make a new web for the joomla. I have made allready a web for my department and there is allready webcalendar and some oter reviewing software there. Some of it needs php safe mode, some not. Shall I open for every new CMS or what so ever a new web? I made my department as a customer and it seems that a customer can have only one web with the same hostname (I do understand it right do I? hostname is in this case the name of the server?)
Sorry again if it is one of these nerving newbie questions...