CHECK your rights, permissions, chmod, ftpuser, webuser

[pcwacht]

Nope, not needed
But on some directories they really are needed,
temp, templates, modules etc etc

This thingy just checks php rights on them, thus testing apache rights


John

[Argos]

I made some changes in the visual aspects:

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echo "<h1>Checking permissions</h1>";
function check_dir($path) {
   echo "<h4>".$path."</h1>";
   $dh = opendir($path);
   while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
      if ($file<>'.' && $file<>'..') {
         if (is_dir($path.'/'.$file)) {
            check_dir($path.'/'.$file);
         } else { 
           if (is_writable($path.'/'.$file)) {
              echo '<font color="green">'.$file.'</font><br>';
           } else {
              echo '<font color="red">'.$file.'</font><br>';
           }
         }
      }
   }
   closedir($dh);
}

check_dir('../temp');
check_dir('../templates');
check_dir('../pages');
check_dir('../languages');
check_dir('../media');

However, I don't understand what's the purpose of this thingy. It seems files only get approved if they are writable, but that's not needed for many files, is it?

[Spritemarkiv]

The part about placing the page in the first level should be on the Knowledge Base. Took me a long time to get it to work. Now working after digging around and finding this topic.

[valerie]

What should you do when it comes back with a list of around 60 items that are "not ok!"?

I've been having trouble with different permissions on some files/folders in wb so based on woudloper's advice I asked my host to change all permissions. But if I understand correctly, this means that now they don't have the permissions wb needs. I'm not sure what to do...

[kweitzel]

Many servers can't handle php inside html pages

OK ... fair comment ... removed it.

This script will only work at a defualt installation (the pages dir for example) and only when the code is put in a firstlevel page

added that info as well ...

cheers and thanks for the corrections

Klaus

[pcwacht]

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If you use it on a HTML Page you need to wrap ....

Many servers can't handle php inside html pages,
they can inside php pages...


This script will only work at a defualt installation (the pages dir for example) and only when the code is put in a firstlevel page
If not the path (../) might be changed to ../../ (if the page wich hold the code is on the irst sublevel)

Maybe note this somewhere
Or change last bit to:

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$path = '../';   // first level page with code
check_dir($path.'temp');
check_dir($path.'templates');
check_dir($path.'pages');   // default pages dir!
check_dir($path.'languages');
check_dir($path.'media');


Thanks for porting the info btw... I like those wikis wich explain stuff

John

[kweitzel]

Hi John,

put an initial Page with this script into the WIKI: http://projects.websitebaker.org/websitebaker2/wiki/Docs-EN-Advanced-Howtos-Filepermissions

Would you please chek and eventually correct me? Thanks

cheers

Klaus

[kweitzel]

good question ... who wrote it ?

cheers

Klaus

[pcwacht]

Windows - Xampp users hardly ever have persmission problems

This script just check to see if the WEB user has permissions to write/create/delete files


I like it allso, it is short, fast and easy enough to understand...


Oh did I mention I wrote it?





John

[kweitzel]

Great Script ... works fine on my production host (Linux). On XAMPP it gives errors. Buit I think we can forget about them

cheers

Klaus

[pcwacht]

Just make a code section paste the code and call the page where it is in

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function check_dir($path) {
   echo "<h1>checking: ".$path."</h1>";
   $dh = opendir($path);
   while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
      if ($file<>'.' && $file<>'..') {
         if (is_dir($path.'/'.$file)) {
            check_dir($path.'/'.$file);
         } else { 
           if (is_writable($path.'/'.$file)) {
              echo 'Green :'.$file.'<br>';
           } else {
              echo '#### Not ok! :'.$file.'<br>';
           }
         }
      }
   }
   closedir($dh);
}

check_dir('../temp');
check_dir('../templates');
check_dir('../pages');
check_dir('../languages');
check_dir('../media');



Works on Linux, not confirmed on windows

Have fun,
John