Hi all
currently in both my live server (it's a shared host) and local test server i need to have the files and folders in "(...)images/stories/virtuemart/" setted up with a 777 permission. If not i'll not be able to upload the product images. if i have permissions set to 775 i'm able to upload but the server wont create the thumbnails. Is this how it is supposed to be? do i need to have some parts of the website unprotected with files and folders with a 777 permission? or do i must have some misconfiguration?
I'm using Joomla 2.5.1 and VirtueMart 2.0.3E
Thanks in advance
That is not how it is supposed to be. No server should ever require 777, so I guess there is a server permissions issue? VirtueMart does not "read" file permissions but the thumb is created by GD2 which is compiled in the server software.
2.0.3E is a development version and contains known bugs - latest stable version is 2.0.2, next will be 2.0.4
Thank you for the reply
i thought so. in my localhost server i'm trying to fix it. I'm running linux with userdir enabled, so i can have direct access to the files and edit whatever i want, without having to run any editor with SU. This makes all files ownership fall to me, not to apache. so it's part of the problem. i tried adding apache to my user group so at least i could use 775 for folders and 664 for files, with no joy. The issue is similar in a shared host.
I'm going to investigate a litle more and report back. I hope i'm the only one with this problem, but if not someone else can benefit from my issues and waste less hair on it. ;D
yes i'm using the development version 2.0.3E because 2.0.2 had some invisible utf8 chars that ruin my layout. i tried asking for help fixing it, or at least identifying the files needed to be converted (they were in utf-8a, i think), with no response. I ended identifying 2 or 3 but not all, so i "upgraded" to 2.0.3G that had another problem: in the front module Featured products, no new products got displayed. Since no one answered to the post were i reported this, asking for help, i start "downgrading" and 2.0.3E was working fine.
I hope my English was not too bad, and that no one interprets me as i was demanding anything.
and thank you again jenkinhill