File and directory permissions

[miguelpinheiro]

Hi there!
I'm almost getting crazy with setting the owner, file permisions of my site.
After getting ISPConfig 2 working using the superb How-to guide in Ubuntu 8.04, I installed Joomla 1.5.

During the install I had to change configuration.php to 777 in order to be able to write on that file all my joomla settings.

Then I went to install a module and it throws the message:

* JFTP::store: Bad response
* Warning! Failed to move file.

1)I've changed all file and directory permissions to 777 inside the "web1" directory just to see if it works but I get the same message.

2)Tried using joomla ftp layer without any luck.

3) I've tried to change the owner off all files and directories to "www-data:www-data" to see if it solves but, again the same message.

4) I've tried suPHP following the guide to Ubuntu 7.04 - I'm not sure if I can use it as I'm executing php as an apache module.
After disabling the php5 module from apache the apache server wouldn't start. Then I proced with the suPHP compilation and it failed again although it generated the .so file (????). So I modified the httpd.conf file (wich was empty) and put the line stated on the how-to.
After that, the apache server wouldn't start. So I enabled again php5 module and finally I get it up.
I do not know if this is the right way of installing suPHP.

And I do not know what to do next...

Can someone help me give me ideas on what to test? Some hits

Many thanks. Regards.

[till]

Joomla 1.5 has a FTP layer, you can configure it trough the joomla setup to circumvent permission problems.

[miguelpinheiro]

Originally Posted by till

Joomla 1.5 has a FTP layer, you can configure it trough the joomla setup to circumvent permission problems.

I did it and still couldn't install any component. It gave me the same error.

I noticed that some directories and files stills are owned by www-data user instead of web1... user. I'll check this and make sure all files and directories are owned by web1...

I'll update this thread with the results.
Thanks.

[miguelpinheiro]

I finally get it working. Here are the steps I followed:
1) disabled joomla ftp layer
2) All the directories listed in Help->Info->Permissions I changed it to 0777.

Regards.