Permissions Error

Support Installation & Hosting
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Hey guys, I’ve been using Grav for a few weeks now and love it from a custom content type perspective but getting this installed on a server has been a big pain unfortunately. I’m using Digital Ocean to host it and now have it installed and running, but I am not able to post anything as I am getting a permissions error:

Creating directory '/var/www/website.com/public_html/user/pages/03.blog/post2' failed on error mkdir(): Permission denied

I checked the directories and it looks like the correct permissions is being set, I even opened it all the way up (777) and still had the issue…

What else could be going on?

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Have you tried setting permission 777 on more folders? Permissions doesn’t necessarily inherit from parent down to child(ren).

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yeah, but wouldn’t that open me up to all sorts of hacks?

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just a guess,

is the www user in the same group as the ftp user

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how would I check that?

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is digital ocean a shared hoster?

In your FTP-Programm you could see the Owner and the Group of the folders and files.

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No, it’s a VPS.

In my FTP client I can see the permissions setting on files and folders. From what I can tell the directories that need to be 755 are good to go so I’m just not sure what’s up?

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You should also see the Owner and the Group of every folder and file.
or just type on the shell for example “ls -l”

If you set the server up yourself, just check that your ftp user is also a member of “www” group. If your Webser has no ownership of any kind to folders and files, than it is impossible for grav (the webserver) to create/change a file or folder.

  • but as i first mentioned, it is just a guess

hope this helps

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I didn’t set the server up unfortunately, just not familiar with that stuff. Is there a way I can check this from an FTP app?

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hi,

if you dont set the server up, it is maybe better to get the support for this from Digital Ocean.