By john_h on

I keep getting the above error when trying to configure my site, upload new files etc. I'm using a shared server and the directory listing for the directory with my drupal installation is as follows (with my actual username replaced by "username"):

-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        20K Aug 15 01:43 CHANGELOG.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        749 Jan  9  2005 cron.php
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 database
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       8.2K Jun 11  2003 favicon.ico
drwxrwxr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Sep 28 21:28 files
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 includes
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        595 Aug 21  2004 index.php
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        10K Apr 23 06:07 INSTALL.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        18K Sep 15  2004 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       1.4K Sep 15  2004 MAINTAINERS.txt
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 misc
drwxr-xr-x    7 username   username       4.0K Sep 28 21:37 modules
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 scripts
drwxr-xr-x    3 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 sites
drwxr-xr-x    6 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:51 themes
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       8.6K Apr  6 20:04 update.php
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        347 Aug 14 23:33 xmlrpc.php

You will see I tried making ./files writable by its group, but that hasn't worked. This is basically stopping me from doing any real customisation.

Given that I don't have root access, how can I make the ./files directory writable as required?

Comments

Uwe Hermann’s picture

Uwe Hermann commented

chmod 777 files

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john_h’s picture

john_h commented

Thanks. I assume that will be OK - that making files writable by all users will only make it writable by users with login access to the server, not people browsing the site?

grbitz’s picture

grbitz commented

chmod is a setting for the directory on your server's machine. It means that anyone with access to that machine can change things chmod 777. Internet people won't be able to do anything unless they're doing something they're not supposed to be doing, and it goes past your Drupal system.