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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.

Thats what it tells me. I went into my base directory (httpdocs) and ran chmod 777 -R *

So everything should definitely be writable. But alas, I still get that message!

Me too - :(

@Brett: if Magento is installed in httpdocs, this folder itself should be too writable, so new files can be created in it by web application (MagentoConnect downloader)

Moshe - 09 April 2008 04:34 PM

@Brett: if Magento is installed in httpdocs, this folder itself should be too writable, so new files can be created in it by web application (MagentoConnect downloader)

Thanks that took care of it. Can you give me a list of files which need to be chmodded to 777 and what the rest should be chmodded to? I think I might have introduced a security risk to my site.

Any help is appreciated

@Brett: you do not have to make files world writable, if you can make them web server writable.

The most secure solution would be suexec or suPHP (http://www.suphp.org/Home.html), when PHP scripts under your webroot operate under same user as you do in FTP and/or SSH.

Alternatively, if you have shell, you could change the group of your files to group of apache user (could be apache or nouser):

There’s an existing thread specifically about this in the Magento Connect forum that might be of interest:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/5756/