GS Plugin Installer

[HelgeSverre]

Hey Everyone,

New to GS and loving it. I have installed the PlugIn installer but I cannot seem to get it to work. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and have the GS base in my /var/www/website/public_html/ directory. All my permissions appear to be right but the installer fails each time I try to use it. How can I go about basic troubleshooting to figure out what I have done wrong?

Thanks,
Dean

So I found this in my apache2 error log:
PHP Warning:  chmod(): Operation not permitted in /var/www/oclug.ssccbogart.info/public_html/admin/install.php on line 48

over and over again but with different line numbers...44 thru 59. As I suspected it is a permission issue. How can I correct this?

It might be because PHP scripts don't have access to change folder/file permissions on your host, I found an issue similar to the one you are experiencing:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23070266/php-chmod-operation-not-permitted-safe-mode-deprecation-involved


What i'd recommend you do is to change the file/directory OWNER to be the webserver -ser instead of whatever it is now (presumably root?).

You can do this via SSH like this:

Code:

chown -R webserver-user /var/www/oclug.ssccbogart.info/public_html/

replace webserver-user with the user that runs the apache/nginx service (probably www-data).

 Thank you Sir! Spot on and installing plugin's like a champ!

Yeah!<hi fives HelgeSverre vigorously and takes him to the pub for a pint!>

Yay