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[Light Speed]

Where can I change the default ownership for directories and files that smarty writes?

Afer a recent server move i am unable to modify template files through the admin pages. I get a permission denied error. My permissions are:

Template_c 777
admin/newsletter 777
X-Cart directory 755

I deleted all the files and directories in the templates_c directory hoping that would help but no. When I run the cart as a customer the cache files and folders are recreated in templates_c but they have
owner 99
group nobody
permissions 771

That doesn't seem right. I don't want to manually have to change folder chown and chmod all the time. I want smarty to write them correctly. What do I have to do. Help please I am going insane over smarty and permissions.....

I am also on a shared server and my directory at my web host has
owner=my plans username
group=my plan username

would it be possible to have smarty write the files and directories with that owner/group setting? Would that solve my permissions problem? Would that stop X-Cart from functioning with other server functions?

[funkydunk]

It sounds like the server is set up with a umask of 006.

I would ask your hosts to resolve this so that you can get true 0777 permissions on the files/directories.

[Rich Z]

I don't know if this is a similar problem, but I FINALLY have found the time to spend on my X-Cart, so I added in a logo and put in some new categories and products while in admin mode. When I went to user mode to look at my handiwork, I got a bunch of REALLY ugly error messages all over the screen:

Warning: Smarty error: problem writing '../templates_c/N20/N2041962639/0.php.' in /home/serpenco/public_html/xcart/Smarty-2.1.1/Smarty.class.php on line 546

I tried playing around with the permission on the directories, but it didn't seem to help any. I too have moved to a new server, but I am leasing the box and have root access to it.

Any ideas on what went wrong?

Thanks!

Addendum:

I checked in the templates_c directory (which has permissions set to 777) and all of the subdirectories there are set to 771. Is that right?

BTW, I moved the domains from my old server to the new server via CPanel/WHM, if anyone is familiar with that. Owner and group are both my login in MOST directores, but a couple are "nobody nobody".

Sigh....

[Light Speed]

Check ownership on templates_c and everything in it and make sure that the server owns it. Usally nobody/nobody

[Rich Z]

Thanks. It looks like just about everything is owned by my logon (serpenco/serpenco). Should I change EVERYTHING in the xcart directory to nobody/nobody?

[Rich Z]

Yahoo!!

That did it!

I changed ownership and group to nobody/nobody and it's working now!

Thanks for the help!!

BTW, I only changed templates_c and below. Is this going to bite me in the butt somewhere else with other files having the incorrect ownership?

[Light Speed]

I can't remeber but I think there is one other directory that needs server ownership. Maybe something to do with the newsletter but i'm not sure. Hopefully Boomer or shan can help

[Klaas]

I think i have a similar problem now. I did a fresh install with X-Cart Gold 3.4.1 but when finished i've got the following error:

Can't write template cache in the directory: //templates_c.
Please check if it exists, and have writable permissions.

So I checked permissions and they are set to 777 so this should be right. Group and owner are www.users instead of nobody.nobody. This is created by X-Cart self. What am I doing wrong here ?

[shan]

try and run cleanup.php then without viewing your store ftp in , delete templates_c folder and recreate it via ftp, set it to 777 and then try your store again

[Klaas]

Originally Posted by shan

try and run cleanup.php then without viewing your store ftp in , delete templates_c folder and recreate it via ftp, set it to 777 and then try your store again

Ok did what you said, but with no luck. Still getting the same error.