Anybody with experience installing Drupal w/ Plesk 10?
I just moved to a dedicated virtual, and Plesk is the default Control Panel. Logged in as admin (of Plesk), I created a subscription for my main site example.com, and had to create another user (userx) for it. However, I can't login to control panel w/ userx, but yet have ftp access, and I've set ssh access as well.
Here is where I get confused: once the subscription is made, the default permissions of the httpdocs and its subfolders belong to userx, I can ftp my files to httpdocs using userx, but when I try to install drupal, it says that settings.php and /sites/default/files folder can't be created.
Looking here and here, it seems I need to make sure that the user the webserver runs as has access to those files. I figured that it would be userx, since that is the user I created when creating the subscription for this site.
Question - who is the user the webserver runs as? And if possible, please describe proper installation w/ plesk and centos.
Please pardon my ignorance as I'm not a sysadmin...
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This is all you should need to do:
First, temporarily give group and other write access to the settings.php file with this command:
chmod ugo+w settings.php(I added the user for good measure.)Next, manually create the files directory and give the group write access with this command:
chmod -R ug+w settings.php(The "-R" says to do it recursively.)After your installation is done, remove all write access to settings.php with a similar command to the first one:
chmod ugo-w settings.phpYou can check to make sure you have everything correct on the Reports -> Status report page.
Thanks so much! LOL my *nix
Thanks so much! LOL my *nix skills aren't as good as yours and you've been a great help at both the meetups and here.
I knew I had to change permissions but didn't know to which group or what permissions. Looking at the different groups and permissions, if anybody's running Plesk, make sure to change the group for the files directory to psaserv (Plesk Server). This is the group that will need write access to the files directory, and during install the settings.php file.
chgrp psaserv sites/default/filesMost likely, when you upload the file through the ftp user, the ftp user belongs to the group psacln (Plesk User/Client).
Oh one more thing...just a slight correction to oadeh's above post on changing the permissions on the files directory (second *nix command)
chmod -R ug+w sites/default/filesjust change from settings.php to the files directory.
***IMPORTANT:
As oadeh stated above, make sure to remove write access to settings.php when done, especially on a live site.
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Oops!
Darn my copying and pasting w/o correcting. :^)
I thought about mentioning changing the group, but I didn't know what to change it to, and I kind of ASSuMEd it would already be set correctly. I guess I was wrong about that. :^)
You're welcome. Glad you got it working.
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