[Daniel Jones]

Hello CBox-ers!

I’ve been messing around trying to get a Commons up and running on my local machine with LAMP, and everything was going fine (managed to get all the plugins installed, configured, etc.) until I actually installed the CBox theme. Then I started getting a blank page when I tried to load any wordpress page along with this error:

“Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘ICE_Export_Exception’ with message ‘Unable to create directory localhost/2013/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?’ in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/engine/ICE/utils/export.php:190”

I made sure that my apache user (www-data) was the owner on the directory where wordpress is installed (it’s in var/www/wordpress, with the wordpress folder being symlink-ed to /usr/share/wordpress), and even chmod-ed those folders to 777 to make double sure, but I’m still getting the error, which is weird because it seems like it’s just a permissions issue. My terminal is claiming that all of the wordpress-related files are owned by www-data, and are 777-ed for everyone. Again this only started happening once I installed the CBox theme, which I guess is using ICE to try and create directories for managing content? I’m running a LAMP installation with php5 and Ubuntu 12.04

Any thoughts on what might be causing this? Could it just be a quirk of running it on my localhost instead of a “real” server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated- I want a chance to mess around with CBox on my own machine before I start working on a live site.

Thanks in advance!

Dan Jones

 

[Drew H]

I’m having the same problem, was there any resolution to this?

[Drew H]

I’ve found the solution! This error is happening because the apache user group doesn’t have write privileges and thus can’t manipulate a file (I don’t know why it needs to, but I trust that it does)

To solve this problem you simply need to change the file ownership. I suggest making apache own everything on your local install so that you can use the web site to update and download themes/plugins.

I’m running Mac OSX, my apache user is _www while Linux systems typically use www-data.

To change ownership navigate to the root wordpress folder on your command line (eg the folder with the wp-config.php) and use the command: sudo chown -R _www:_www .

sudo runs the command as root.

chown is the program we are running to Change Ownership of the file(s)

-R is a flag that runs the chown command recursively, meaning that it applies the command to all sub folders and their files.

_www:_www is for the user and group, the colon separates them, user on the left, group on the right

. (period) this indicates which folder to effect, because you are currently in the WP root you want to target that folder which the period is a shorthand used to do this. It basically means “This Current Folder”.

Next you’ll want to add your user to the apache group so you can update and execute files, on mac OSX you can copy and paste this command:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a 'whoami' -t user _www

‘whoami’ will magically turn into your user name, please note those SHOULD BE back ticks (the ~ key to the left of the one key).

You’ll need to lookup how to do it on linux on your own.

Cheers!

• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by Drew H.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by Drew H.

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