[Vtigercrm-developers] Install docs on Wiki need update

Prasad prasad at vtiger.com
Fri Jun 8 00:37:50 PDT 2012


Alan,

Thanks for catching the typo. We have noticed apache username
to be different of *nix flavors. Have you encountered the same or will it
work regardless?

Regards,
Prasad

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 08/06/12 05:54, Prasad wrote:
> > Alan,
> >
> > Thanks for bringing up the issue, we plan to update the following with
> > respect to file/folder write permission:
> >
> > chown -R <apache_user>:<apache_group> vtigercrm_source
> > chmod -R u+rw vtigercrm_source
> >
> > OR
> >
> > cd vtigercrm_source
> > chown -R a+rw cron/ Smarty/templates/ Smarty/templates_c/ cache/
> > modules/ parent_tabdata.php tabdata.php user_privileges/ test/ storage/
>
> Hi Prasad,
>
> The second suggestion should be chmod not chown (but I am sure that was
> just a typo) but there is no need to make anything writeable by all...
> The only process writing to anything in the vtiger tree should be apache.
>
> To be honest, the only thing I have ever *needed* to do after extracting
> the source tarball is to chown it to the apache user:group.
>
> In my experience, "Best/Standard Practice" would be to make all files
> rw-r--r-- (644) and all directories rwxr-xr-x (755) and then chown
> everything to the apache user:group or apache:nobody depending on the
> linux distribution.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Alan
>
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