Magento

Hi guys,
Oh man , i hope someone can give me some tutorial on how to enable the Magento Connect,

Log into ADMIN , go to System > Magento Extensions > Manage Extensions

I get this MESSAGE

Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions

Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.

If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) and press the “Refresh” button to try again.

what do i do next ? CMOD 777 all directories ??

If you wish your web application update your files, you would need to make files writable for web service.

This could be done by suexec or suPHP without need to chmod 777 all the folders.
It is also possible to set group ‘apache’ to your files and set permissions to 775, which will give write permission to your shell/FTP user and web service (apache).

index.php should be 755 for proper (F)CGI function.

It is also possible to use magentoconnect downloader in shell, if you have access to it, and then you will not need to change files permissions.

Wiki article will be written for shell MagentoConnect usage.

Thanks bro, i will try something out , since i’m on a VPS, i have access,
Waiting for wiki article

Go Magento!

I’m having my host look at this particular issue as we speak, i’ve forwarded Moshe’s post to them as well. As soon as they figure out whats going on I’ll post the solution that worked for me. Hopefully it will assist some others.

My host fixed the issue by changing the ownership of the index.php file to username.nobody. I’m not sure what that means, but its what they told me when i asked and it works now.

chmod -R 777 magento?

I believe his host did chown username_here.nobody index.php

Hi @manolodf,

So these are the modifications that need to be made? See below:
1. “chown apache:nobody index.php” (index.php in root magento folder)
2. chmod 755 index.php

Is this correct? If not, can you adjust what else needs to be changed?

Thanks.

Here’s what we had to do:

Upped the quota on the account as it was at limit. And made changes to the
directories magento needed to write to. They needed to be owned by user
“user” and group “nobody” with permissions 775.

It’s now working.

By the way, we’re using Liquid Web’s VPS services, and have been extremely impressed with this company and their customer service model. We have yet to come across such personable, yet professional services as Liquid Web...and we’ve been around the block a few times so far. They’ve been helpful in researching this matter with us.

Thanks,
Lee

It is also possible to use magentoconnect downloader in shell, if you have access to it, and then you will not need to change files permissions.

Wiki article will be written for shell MagentoConnect usage.

Can you explain how to work Mage_Connect in the shell????
It seems that it would be safer to do so by shell, and keep the security risk for others.

Thanks, Martin

I have the same problem, can you please just explain in steps how you solved this problem? thanks

In my test environment I just did chmod -R o+w * from the magento root directory.

I’d really like to know what directories do need to have world write rights and what don’t as I feel this is a huge security risk.