Mkdir Permission denied

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Hi,
I haven’t got any experience.

Tried to install grav. Worked through the permissions troubleshooting section. Still no joy.

I run grav on apache provided with macos sierra. I used the following guide to set up Apache and PHP: https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-and-phpmyadmin-working-on-macos-sierra/

I keep getting the following error

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'Creating directory '/Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/cache//compiled/files' failed on error mkdir(): Permission denied' in /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/vendor/rockettheme/toolbox/File/src/File.php:424 Stack trace: #0 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/vendor/rockettheme/toolbox/File/src/File.php(195): RocketTheme\Toolbox\File\File->mkdir('/Users/akurczyc...') #1 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/vendor/rockettheme/toolbox/File/src/File.php(320): RocketTheme\Toolbox\File\File->lock() #2 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/vendor/rockettheme/toolbox/File/src/PhpFile.php(31): RocketTheme\Toolbox\File\File->save(Array) #3 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/system/src/Grav/Common/File/CompiledFile.php(67): RocketTheme\Toolbox\File\PhpFile->save(Array) #4 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/system/src/Grav/Common/Config/Setup.php(178): Grav\Common\File\CompiledYamlFile->content() #5 /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/system/src/Grav/Common/Processors/SiteSetupProcessor.php(18): Grav\Common\Config\Setup->init() # in /Users/akurczych/Sites/grav/system/src/Grav/Common/File/CompiledFile.php on line 83

Apache runs with user akurczych

Permissions in the grav folder

-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff   91404  7 Sep 14:09 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff    3216  7 Sep 14:09 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff    7061  7 Sep 14:09 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff    1071  7 Sep 14:09 LICENSE.txt
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff   14765  7 Sep 14:09 README.md
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 assets
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 backup
drwsrwsr-x@  6 akurczych  staff     204  7 Sep 14:09 bin
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 cache
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff    1846  7 Sep 14:09 composer.json
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff  120320  7 Sep 14:09 composer.lock
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 images
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff    1545  7 Sep 14:09 index.php
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 logs
-rw-rw-r--   1 akurczych  staff     172 27 Sep 23:49 perm-fix.sh
-rw-rw-r--@  1 akurczych  staff     197  7 Sep 14:09 robots.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 akurczych  staff      19 27 Sep 23:56 setup.php
drwsrwsr-x@ 12 akurczych  staff     408 27 Sep 23:45 system
drwsrwsr-x@  3 akurczych  staff     102  7 Sep 14:09 tmp
drwsrwsr-x@  8 akurczych  staff     272  7 Sep 14:09 user
drwsrwsr-x@ 22 akurczych  staff     748  7 Sep 14:09 vendor
drwsrwsr-x@  8 akurczych  staff     272  7 Sep 14:09 webserver-configs

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Andy

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Hi,
Your files must belong to the user of the web server (usually www-data).
To make yourself a chown www-data:www-data -R in your folder.

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Could not change owner to www-data. Replied that it is illegal group name.

I checked which user Apache runs with using the following command

ps aux | grep -v root | grep apache | cut -d\ -f1 | sort | uniq

as recommended in the Troubleshooting Permissions section and it was akurczych so I thought that Apache runs with the same user as the owner of the files.

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Check your apache configuration file, the user, and the group. But apparently it is the right user.
Finally, I say that, but I do not know if your hoster does not allow you to access this file.

The rights in the cache folder, are they the same?

To try, the time of a test can be, switch the right in 777 (read and write for all) in the cache folder, to see what it says, and after reset with correct rights after.

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Hi Kosnik,

Finally got it sorted. You were right, it was a problem with user and group in the apache configuration file.

When I run the check suggested in the Permission troubleshooting section:

ps aux | grep -v root | grep apache | cut -d\ -f1 | sort | uniq

it showed that apache runs with akurczych user as required.

However following your advice and the advice in the apache set-up article https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-sierra-apache-multiple-php-versions
I realised that user and group need to be specified in the configuration file.

Thank you for your help. Much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Andy

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You can then mark this as solved :wink:

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