Smarty ownership and permissions hell

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?

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.

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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:


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....

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

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?

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?

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

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 ?

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

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