web/config.php; file permission problem

[Questionarius]

Hello,

I have 2 major problems:
1. Change the permissions of the "app/cache/" directory so that the web server can write into it.
2. Change the permissions of the "app/logs/" directory so that the web server can write into it.

I've already change permission for those directories (chmod 777 -R cache; chmod/ 777 -R logs/) but still have above problems appear. Please help!

PS.
I'm using Symfony Standard 2.0 RC4 with installed vendors
PS2.
is_writable function returns false for directories listed when I execute config.php file from web browser, but when I execute this file from shell it returns true!

[Questionarius]

I'm using Symfony Standard 2.0 RC4 with installed vendors

[Think]

So, what 'ls -l' displays for these dirs?

[halfer]

Are you on shared hosting? What errors are you getting, exactly? Check your permissions, as @Think says.

[ringhio]

Take a look at this http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/installation.html in the "Setting up Permissions" note.

[jribeiro]

Hi there!!

I'm new on symfony and on this forum!

I uploaded all files to my server (shared), changed the file web/config.php so I could access it from non localhost machine (just added my work ip) and accessed the file.

I got the following errors:
1. You are running PHP version "5.2.17", but Symfony needs at least PHP "5.3.2" to run. Before using Symfony, install PHP "5.3.2" or newer.
2. Change the permissions of the "app/cache/" directory so that the web server can write into it.
3. Change the permissions of the "app/logs/" directory so that the web server can write into it.
4. Set the "date.timezone" setting in php.ini* (like Europe/Paris).

The 1st and 4th don't worry me and I've placed a support ticket to the hosting company so they can make this arranjements.

The 2nd and 3rd problems worry me though... I've set the permissions to 777 through ftp recursivly but the error persists! I only have ftp access so i ran out of ideas.

I hope to deploy symfony accross multiples websites so I can't be asking the hosting to be changing the permissions constantly.

Also isn't it a bit unsafe to set the permissions for 777??

Thanks you all

[goyote]

some shared hosting offer a linux shell, not sure if yours do. Basically check the user that owns the dir with

ll app/cache

then make sure the permissions for that user has a rwx

[didlou]

Hello,

If you can't written app/cache and app/logs
message:

Change the permissions of the "app/cache/" directory so that the web server can write into it.
Change the permissions of the "app/logs/" directory so that the web server can write into it.

see troubleshoots selinux

the problem detail :

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from write access on the dossier logs.

***** Plugin httpd_write_content (92.2 confiance) suggéré********************

Si vous souhaitez autoriser httpd à accéder à write sur logs directory
Alors you need to change the label on 'logs'
Faire
# semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t 'logs'
# restorecon -v 'logs'

in command line ; # service httpd restart

reload Symfony config.php
and ........ After

Welcome!

Welcome to your new Symfony project.

This script will guide you through the basic configuration of your project. You can also do the same by editing the ‘app/config/parameters.ini’ file directly.

Configure your Symfony Application online
Bypass configuration and go to the Welcome page
Re-check configuration

That's it