By tce on

I'm trying to set my the Private file system path to a folder above the site root, but I keep getting the message:

The directory /var/www/vhosts/mydomain/private exists but is not writable and could not be made writable

I think this is a server permission problem. Any pointers?

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
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You need to change the file permissions on that directory to 755.

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tce commented

Thanks for the reply. Changing the permission on that directory doesn't work. Using the path ../private also doesn't work, which is the same thing but thought I'd mention it. It's a new server, other than the file permission on the directory, do you know what could be the problem?

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tce commented

Got it working. I had to change the ownership of the directory.

chown -R apache:apache private

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krisp1 commented

Thanks for sharing this information. This command fixed issue for me also.