Unable to manage files?? 744

[morCorp]

Just installed ionFiles.
Added categories, but in unable to manage files.
I get the following message:

Upload directory /home/meraphar/public_html/iFDownloads is not writeable and ionFiles could not chmod to 744. Please chmod 0744.

I checked the file permissions thru cpanel and it is in fact set to 744.

In addition, after the install, the cpanel file manger is functioning differently. The left margin no longer shows the list of directories, though it does show the /home/meraphar as being expanded, there are no files or folders showing below. It does show inthe right hand window. I guess that is OK.

[Jordan]

ionFiles doesn't affect cpanel in any way. It only creates a new directory. I do not know why 744 would not work for you, thought. Perhaps the owner of the directory is not user Apache is running as. Try chmod 774 or 777.

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[DavidBoggitt]

Hi Jordan,

This sounds a lot like the problem I had and wrote in this thread:

Create folder problem: appears to have created a new site in cpanel

I had exactly the same issue with cpanel file manager that morCorp talks about and the only way I could get things to work were to take a copy of the site with JoomlaPack to localhost, install ionFiles on there and then put the site back on the live server!

I wonder: has morCorp gor a shared hosting account, where the domain that he/she isn't the main domain for the site, as if so, this would be the same as my setup.

Dave.

P.S. Hope you enjoyed your holiday

[0_0]

Maybe of a incorrect directory. When i install ionfiles my directory was "mydomain\iFDownloads" but the warning message was same that your "
Upload directory /home/xxxx/xxx/mydomain/iFDownloads is not writeable and ionFiles could not chmod to 744. Please chmod 0744."

Check if the directory is really /iFDownloads if not create one. I solved this so.

[equator-cc]

Hello.

I have just installed ionFiles 4.5.0 PB3 on a Linux server.

The installer created a directory at the same level as the public_html directory called public_html\iFDownloads

So when I used the ionFiles manage files panel to create a new file, it gave the error described by 0_0 about upload directory not writeable... chmod 744 etc.

So I deleted the directory called public_html\iFDownloads and created one inside the public_html directory called iFDownloads

Seems to have fixed the problem.

Possibly this is a bug in the 4.5.0 PB3 installer?

HTH
equator-cc

[Jordan]

Did you happen to notice the owner/group of the iFDownloads directory before deleting it?

[equator-cc]

The owner was the same as all the other files and directories (matches the domain name of the hosting).

Permissions is 744.

The point I was trying to make is that Unix (Linux) systems don't recognise the backslash as directory delimiter when the script attempts to create the directory - needs a forward slash?

Thanks

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