December 2nd, 2004
I had a real struggle getting Movable Type to work after I'd installed it. The problem, and the solution are described below (from a Movable Type Support Forum):
"Permission Denied" but permissions are 777,
MT can't write files |
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| alistairc |
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Dec 1 2004, 02:51 PM |
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I've
installed MT 3.1
Everything seems to be okay, except when I try to add an
entry.
The cgi files are installed in /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/
Other MT files are in /var/www/html/mt/ which I've
blown wide open with chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/mt/
I have set
NoTempFiles 1
in mt.cfg
I created a new weblog, but when I edit the Core Setup
and click Rebuild My Site I get:
Writing to '/var/www/html/mt/index.html' failed:
Opening local file '/var/www/html/mt/index.html'
failed: Permission denied
I don't understand this, as this directory has 777
permissions.
Can anyone help?
I've trawled about in Google but everything suggested
has had not effect. I've tried deleting the weblog,
deleting the mySQL database, re-running mt-load.cgi - but
I get the same problem. |
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| shelley |
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Dec 1 2004, 07:04 PM |
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Do you have an index.html that already exists in that folder?
Perhaps try deleting it? |
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| alistairc |
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Dec 2 2004, 04:10 AM |
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Nope, no index file in that folder.
I did have the static files/folders there. I tried
moving them elsewhere (and changing the config file) but
I get the same error message when I try to rebuild:
Writing to '/var/www/html/mt/index.html' failed:
Opening local file '/var/www/html/mt/index.html'
failed: Permission denied |
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| alistairc |
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Dec 2 2004, 04:29 AM |
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I get the feeling this might be an Apache thing - something
stopping CGI scripts writing files.
I moved the CGI files from /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/ to /var/www/cgi-bin/
just in case Apache was particular about where Perl scripts
are run from, but that didn't help - same error message.
It seems like something is blocking mt.cgi from writing
files, even though permissions are wide open. |
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| alistairc |
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Dec 2 2004, 05:44 PM |
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OK, I finally found out what my problem was.
I wasn't an Apache problem as such, but I was close.
The problem was caused by using SELinux in Fedora Core
3.
(I don't know what SELinux is, except that it's
something to do with security. I'll be reading up on
it in the very near future.)
I found the answer while searching for help with another
problem I was having (namely how to get past the error:
"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock" when trying to start up phpMyAdmin).
Google led me to this page:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.php.sql/...a983b3d20a60eda
where the answer is:
"adjust settings SELinux for
httpd/apache"
As soon as I read that I reckonned these two problems might
have a common cause. Sure enough, once I'd disabled
SELinux, both problems were solved.
To disable SELinux (using the Gnome desktop), go to:
Applications > System Settings > Security Level
This opens the Security Level Configuration dialog box.
Go to the SELinux tab and clear the selection on the check
boxes: "Enabled (Modification Requires Reboot)" and "Enforcing
Current: Permissive".
You don't need to reboot, or restart httpd, the fix
works as soon as you click OK.
However, I'm not happy about having to disable something
that was obviously designed to increase security (even
if I don't know much about SELinux yet). And I don't
much care for having a subdirectory of my html directory
that has 777 permissions.
But at least it all works now!
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