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Re: [cobalt-users] site admin can't upload files via FTP?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] site admin can't upload files via FTP?
- From: "Ryan J. Smith" <rizzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 31 21:54:07 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
gerald@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Check the owner/group and permissions of the directory and the files.
> Is it a FP site?
... and elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've ran into this once on a site which had FrontPage
> extensions which were later removed. The site owner's FTP client
> couldn't deal with the nobody ownership of the files. I had to jump
> in and change them to the user name for the account.
Well, I thought I had disabled FrontPage entirely (I pulled the Apache
module so it wouldn't waste my RAM), but apparently the "nobody" user still
owned everything. I chowned the whole document root to my site
administrator's username and it worked like a charm! Thanks guys!
--
Ryan J. Smith ("Rizzo")
rizzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx