this has been asked again and again, but none of the solutions I found actually works for me. I'm testing a new server (Ubuntu server 14.04) and have gone through the whole installation process of the various required software. So far I can access my internal web page via
http://myInternalIP/wordpress/
I added there a dummy post and it looks ok.
Now I wanted to add a plug-in, but I'm having major trouble with that.
So here is what I have done.
I added a new user called ftps that has it's home dir in
/usr/share/wordpress/
and this is part of
~$ groups ftps
ftps : ftps www-data
When I try to add a plug-in, all goes well until I get the following message:
Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-importer.0.6.1.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Could not create directory.
Return to Importers
So the general answer I found in many posts, is that this is a permission issue. Fine. Well I'm fighting with the permission issues since xx hours. So here is a brief summary of what I've done:
I've tried changing ownerships and groups around (www-data, my user name, ftps). It did not work.
I've changed permissions to 777 to all the wordpress directory in /usr/share/wordpress.
I've tried the following commands:
sudo -u helder touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt
sudo -u ftps touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt
sudo -u www-data touch /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt
All of these commands generated a file succesfully in the specific directory.
My feeling is that permissions are not the issue, but I might be wrong... what should I look out for?
Thanks
I had to enable write_enable=YES in the file vsftpd.conf.
If you are using vsftpd as your FTP server and have enabled passive connections, you need to add pasv_promiscuous=YES to /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.
Related
I'm working on setting up a website and at first I thought the website was broken but then I look and I'm getting 403d on everything under /javascript/
I've double checked the filesystem permissions. I can rename the javascript folder to js and access the files just fine from a browser. I've tried finding all the locations where the site tries to access /javascript/ and change it to just /js/ but there are some other scripts running that are generating some script tags and it's not proving easy to find them all.
My question is, is there an easy(ish) way to find where apache may be hanging me up? It's a basic apache2 install on ubuntu 14.04 running in a digital ocean droplet.
Now I feel silly.
Just ran grep -r "javascript" . just the same as I was using it to look for references in the website and I see there's a default aliasing of /javascript in the apache2 conf of javascript-common (though it didn't seem to show up in conf-enabled). I ran sudo a2disconf javascript-common and I had access back to the folder.
I'm running MarkLogic 8 (developer edition) on Mac OS 10.10.1.
I'm a beginner with ML, and I'm reading the "Getting Started" material in the online docs, in particular the section "Sample XQuery Application that Runs Directly Against an App Server."
I created the "TestServer" app server just fine, following the instructions. I then copied and pasted the text for the four XQuery files in the exercise, load.xqy, dump.xqy etc.
My local copies of the four .xqy files are under ~/Library/MarkLogic/Apps/Test, per the instructions. Read and execute permissions are open along the entire filepath, down to the .xqy files themselves.
When I request http://localhost:8005/Test/load.xqy, as instructed, I get a 404 Not Found response.
lsof -i :8005 indicates that MarkLogic is indeed listening on port 8005.
I checked the TestServer configuration against the instructions, disabled and re-enabled TestServer, stopped and re-started ML--always with the same result: 404 Not Found.
I haven't been able to find anything in either the ML mail archives or Stackoverflow to get me past this sticking point.
Any ideas or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
This seems like a permission issue. Does it work when you run it as the admin user?
Have check to make sure the files are loaded into the modules database?
Also check the permission got set with the correct role for those file.
Check to see that user that is running the app has the role that you used when setting permission on those file.
This worked for us:
In the TestServer configuration instead of just putting Test in root field, put Apps/Test/ which is the location of the 4 files (load.xqy,dump.xqy, update-form.xqy and update-write.xqy relative to the MarkLogic installation directory -- in our case, centos, this was at /opt/MarkLogic/)
And then issued this command
chmod +r *.xqy
If you follow all the instructions correctly just remove the Test from the url. If yours is "http://localhost:8005/Test/load.xqy" make it "http://localhost:8005/load.xqy"
I've spent quite a few hours trying to figure out what the problem is. The issue is:
Login works but the page doesn't change once I log in as admin. I know that the login works because wrong credentials generate an error. I do not even see the administrative toolbar. No other pages exist on the page, but if I am to, say, input ?q=admin, on user/1, it will go 'Access Denied'
What I've done:
cleared cache and cookies many times
have checked that mod_rewrite works
the cookie path on the drupal settings.php is / and not \
.htaccess is on the drupal root directory, exactly as provided by
drupal.org
in httpd.conf, I have written a new directory and AllowOverride=All
(*note: the parent directory has AllowOverride=None)
Clean URL's are enabled via drush vset
What I suspect the problem is, but don't know how to solve it:
Proxy?
Some permissions that need to be configured on some files/directories
What I have:
CentOS 6.3
Apache 2.2.15
Drush 5.9
Drupal 7.22
Thank you in advance
I can't imagine that this would be a permissions issue, but if it were, you could just start by doing (and btw, I would NEVER recommend doing this on a production server):
cd /<path_in_which_drupal_root_sits>
chown -R apache:apache <drupal_root>
chmod -R 777 <drupal_root>
You might need to sudo to do these, and you will definitely want to bring the chmod permission back down to 775, 755 or 644 as is appropriate to the directory/sub-directory once you're done testing.
This will probably not solve your issue outright, but it will at least help you to eliminate permissions as an issue.
To test proxy issues, you might try installing lynx (command-line http client), and try accessing your site through it using localhost. You should be able to login, and if you get a different result that way than via remote access, you might indeed have some weird proxy or other network issue that's interfering.
Lastly, and this might actually be the most helpful bit here, you ought to inspect your headers before, during and after the login process. You can do this using FireBug or Developer Tools or the like. And, of course, check your Apache access and error logs for anything unexpected or out of the ordinary.
Most likely, though, you just need to reinstall and try it again.
Turns out that it was a SELinux problem. I found out that if I logout via the logout URL and then use https on my website, I can login and use it properly. I needed to reinstall the certificates and setup the security... Thanks for everyone's help.
I am developing a project and that requires ldap validation. But, I don't have a developer/qa ldap server.
Does a small ldap server exist for windows for testing/development?.
I just want to test to validate a active account and detect if it is blocked or not, so i don't want to install a whole domain to do that.
---never mind---
I tried an compiled openldap but I was unable to understand it. Simply, I don't get how to connect to it, how to create a account and how to validate, the client ldap returned me some obfuscate error message, i tried several ways to do it and finally i give up.
Finally, i installed a domain, it was absurdly easy to install (2008 r2), restart the server and that's it.
Anyways, thanks for the advice of opendlap and aldps
If you're on Windows and use Active Directory, have a look at Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) - a LDAP server you can install and use on your dev machine.
The open source LDAP server from OpenLDAP should give you what you need:
http://www.openldap.org/
Apache provide a directory server called "ApacheDS"(Apache Directory Server), and it provides a GUI management client called "Apache Directory Studio" which is based on Eclipse.
If you want to have a test only, this studio provides a built-in server for your test, easy to link.
You can also install the studio directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/2.x/
Active Directory works fine as an LDAP server and its included in the Windows Server 2008 trial. See the answer to my question Testing LDAP Connections to Active Directory Server. I have it running in a KVM virtual machine on Linux and query it from an OpenLDAP based client.
Necromancing.
I've had the same problem.
OpenDS is very easy to get up and running, and doesn't require administrator rights.
You just need to download the ZIP file and run the installer.
The installer can populate the directory with test entries, too - if you want to see some example data.
That's exactly what you're looking for when wanting a simple dev test server.
Note:
OpenDS development has seized, and was forked into OpenDJ, a commercial project by forgerock.
While OpenDS still works on Java7, only OpenDJ will work with Java8.
However, OpenDJ is still FREE and OpenSource.
You can find the sourcecode here on Bitbucket
and you can grab it with git:
git clone https://stash.forgerock.org/scm/opendj/opendj.git
Forget OpenLDAP and AD-LDS; these are way too complicated for simple testing.
In addition, their user interface is horrible, and you need something that you can get up and running FAST, without admin rights, and have it populated with test data in a few minutes, not in a few weeks.
And ApacheDS will require administrator privileges, unfortunately (because it only works as windows service, and you can't start/stop these without being administrator).
So OpenDJ is the definite way to go.
Apache Directory Studio is a good client to browse, edit and import/export data via LDAP (LDIF).
However, despite Apache Directory Studio being written in Java, it adds a dependency to gtk, and only has binaries for x86/x64, which means it won't work on a Chromebook with ARM processor, or on a RaspberrryPI.
But with the test entries added automagically in OpenDJ/OpenDS (if you choose the option), you don't even need that.
When in doubt, use a web based interface that "talks LDAP".
Try OpenDS it is very simple and requires only Java.
You could roll your own LDAP server for testing pretty easily using godap: https://github.com/bradleypeabody/godap
It's written in Go. It's very small and simple.
You would basically need to copy the server example out of godap_test.go and wire it up however you need.
Try simple-ldap-server
I know its pretty late to answer this question. But for the reference of someone who runs into the same question.
I wrote a simple ldap server(using ldapjs on nodejs) for authentication testing purposes. Please feel free to use it. It's easy to configure. Can support both LDAP/LDAPS protocols, just require a json file including the user ids you want to add(or it comes with a pre-included users json file, which you can use if you want).
The project is on github. (I'll add a docker image too)
Feel free to visit and use
Docker image
Simple Ldap Server Git
OpenLDAP. Ships with most Unixes and Linuxes. For Windows it is available from several sources:
Cygwin
http://www.userbooster.de
as the Silver (free) edition of the CDS product http://www.symas.com/cds.shtml. This is crippled compared to the Userbooster version, which is complete.
You can use a Docker container with Samba as Domain controller, here I show how to setup one in just a few minutes
Basically you need to
Create an image with this (read the post if you want to know why)
$ git clone https://github.com/padiazg/alpine-samba-ad-container.git
$ cd alpine-samba-ad-container
# replace your-user with your username
$ docker build -t your-user/alpine-samba-ad-container .
Create some folders and files to persist the container data
mkdir /tmp/krb-conf
&& mkdir /tmp/krb-data
&& mkdir /tmp/smb-conf
&& modir /tmp/smb-data
&& touch /tmp/krb-conf/krb5.conf
Run the container
docker run -d \
-e SAMBA_ADMIN_PASSWORD=a-secure-password \
-e SAMBA_DOMAIN=local \
-e SAMBA_REALM=local.your-domain.io \
-e LDAP_ALLOW_INSECURE=true \
--mount type=bind,source=/tmp/krb-conf/krb5.conf,target=/etc/krb5.conf \
--mount type=bind,source=/tmp/krb-data,target=/var/lib/krb5kdc \
--mount type=bind,source=/tmp/smb-conf,target=/etc/samba \
--mount type=bind,source=/tmp/smb-data,target=/var/lib/samba \
-p 389:389 \
--name smb4ad \
your-user/alpine-samba-ad-container
And now you are good to go
I'm moving from an old shared host to a dedicated server at MediaTemple. The server is running Plesk CP, but, as far as I can tell, there's no way via the Interface to do what I want to do.
On the old shared host, running cPanel, I creative a .zip archive of all the website's files. I downloaded this to my computer, then uploaded it with FTP to the new host account I'd set up.
Finally, I logged in via SSH, navigated to the directory the zip was stored in (something like var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/ and ran the unzip command on the file sitearchive.zip. This extracted everything just the fine. The site appeared to work just fine.
The problem: When I tried to edit a file through FTP, I got Error - 160: Permission Denied. When I Get Info for the file I'm trying to edit, it says the owner and group is swimwir1.
I attemped to use chown at this point to change owner - and yes, as you may be able to tell, I'm a little inexperienced in SSH ;) luckily the server was new, since the command I ran - chown -R newuser / appeared to mess a load of stuff up. The reason I used / on the end rather than /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/ was because I'd already cded into their, so I presumed the / was relative to where I was working. This may be the case, I have no idea, either way - Plesk was no longer accessible, although Apache and things continued to work. I realised my mistake, and deciding it wasn't worth the hassle of 1) being an amateur and 2) trying to fix it, I just reprovisioned the server to start afresh.
So - what do I do to change the owner of these files correctly?
Thanks for helping out a confused beginner!
Jack
Your command does indeed specify an absolute path to the root of the filesystem. Any path that begins with a '/' is absolute. You need:
chown -R newuser .
or:
chown -R newuser /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs