Safe mode gid - upload problem [RESOLVED]

[vidar]

First - I have searched both this forum and that of my ISP and read lots of threads, but I'm still not sure how to solve this.

The problem is trivial enough - authors can not upload files, but are presented with this error:

Warning: mkdir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid/gid is 183568/183568 is not allowed to access /pathto_upload/conferences owned by uid/gid 398/398 in /pathto_ocs/classes/file/FileManager.inc.php on line 234

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to access /pathto_upload/conferences/1/schedConfs/1/papers/4/submission/original/4-15-1-SM.txt in /pathto_ocs/classes/file/FileManager.inc.php on line 95

My ISP has safe_mode_gid: on, but the folders created when uploading a file is owned by httpd:httpd, and thereby not possible to chmod with my username.

Any ideas to what I could do?

[smiri]

Hi vidar,

From the error message you're getting it's pretty obvious that it's a permissions problem. The way we have it setup on our server is the "files" folder is in the user's home and the "files" directory looks like this:

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drwxr-xr-x  3  abcd  abcd  4096 Oct 31 09:52 conferences
drwxr-xr-x  2  abcd  abcd  4096 Oct 29 09:50 site
drwxr-xr-x  2  abcd  abcd  4096 Dec 11 04:25 temp

We also have the apache running as "abcd" user. So the folders created in the /home/abcd/files/ are all created by the "abcd" user. Since it sounds like you don't have root access to the server, you would have to ask your ISP to make sure the files in your OCS directory are running as your user and not httpd.

Regards,

[vidar]

Thank you for your reply. I am trying to make my ISP change ownership of the fils and folders.