failed to open directory - permission denied - LITE.php

RavenLife · **Joined:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:03 am **Posts:** 191

hey guys i wonder if anyone could tell me what this is, as i randomly get this and i'm not sure why
aslo i randomly get emails stating SMF could not connect to DB could this be the same problem

thanks

RL

Im using SMF 1.1.1 with the Joomla Hacks Bridge

Quote:

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_d/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_e/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_8/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_2/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_c/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_1/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_3/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_4/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_6/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_9/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_a/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_5/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_7/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_f/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_b/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Warning: opendir(/home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/cache/db/cache_0/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Permission denied in /home/corvus/public_html/administrator/components/com_smf/includes/Lite.php on line 611

Wolverine · **Posted:** Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:49 pm

these are the caching directories and are created and should be owned by the php process. They should never be changed. If this is occurring your webhost might have a process that is going through your website and resetting permissions(I've seen it before). If you can not find the culprit you can change the hashedDirectoryLevel setting to 0 which will in turn not use or create those directories. Do this on or around line line 96 in administrator/components/com_smf/admin.smf.class.php by changing this line:

Code:

'hashedDirectoryLevel' => 1);

to this

Code:

'hashedDirectoryLevel' => 0);

Then go into JSMF configuration and click save, which clears the cache.

RavenLife · **Joined:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:03 am **Posts:** 191

thanks

are there any downsides to doint this?

Wolverine · **Posted:** Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:14 pm

the downside is possible performance decrease but unless your site is very busy, not much. Essentially, every function call is cached for performance. This results in a large number of cache files. If they all reside in one directory it can slow performance. But if your host is doing something like changing permissions, well, you probably don't have much choice.

RavenLife · **Joined:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:03 am **Posts:** 191

well i was going to do what you said - as the site isnt really busy so wouldnt really effect me

but it would seem i dont have pemission either through

FTP
my Cpanel
or JoomlaXplorer

so looks like i need to speak with my host

RavenLife · **Joined:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:03 am **Posts:** 191

sorry for the second post

it would seem my host have been messing around with permissions, due to a recent hard drive issue

there on to it

thanks very much for the help

RL

SodaJim · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:52 pm

Just raising this from the archives...

Quote:

these are the caching directories and are created and should be owned by the php process. They should never be changed.

Does this mean they should owned by www and part of the www group...?

Thanks, as this could be the solution I've been looking for...
Jim

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