How do I fix directory permissions unwritable

[fodde]

All my directory permissions show unwritable although I've set them all to 777 (to try and fix the problem).

Any help please.

[guilliam]

paano mo inap-load? via ftp or zip to host then unzip by cpanel?

[raeldc]

Hi fodde, it's a problem with your webhost. Putting the folders to 777 is a sure way to get hacked so it's just for debugging.

The best solution is to use Joomla's FTP layer. Just go to the Global Configuration, and enter your host's FTP details.

[sthadd]

I put joomla on my Ubuntu server so that a non-root user could access it via ftp and had all kinds of permissions troubles. What no single post out there addressed was that both the ownership and permissions needed to be changed. Here's how I finally fixed it:

Replace the terms joomlawebsitedirectory and ftpuser with your desired directory and username. root and www-data are both fair game for ftpuser if that's how you roll, but I wanted to use a separate, limited account so that the developer could not access my other sites hosted on this server.

#Fix the main directory (run from inside /var/www)

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chmod 775 joomlawebsitedirectory
chown -R ftpuser:www-data joomlawebsitedirectory

# Fix all the sub directories (from inside /var/www/joomlawebsitedirectory)

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for file in $(find .); do if [ -f $file ]; then echo "$file" is a file; chmod 664 $file; elif [ -d $file ]; then echo $file is a directory; chmod 775 $file; else echo "wtf"; fi; done

This sets both the ownership and the permissions on all directories and files so that your ftpuser can connect and upload/download/change the files directly and also so that the joomla admin/users can manipulate the site via joomla interface.

[Per Yngve Berg]

Install SuPHP.

http://www.binarytides.com/install-suphp-ubuntu/