Permissions errors on first use of /_admin screen

Squiz Matrix Installation
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I have been able to install things fine, was able to see the root of my site, and tried to log in to the "domain.com/matrix/_admin" screen…


and saw this.

    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    session_start(): open([SYSTEM_ROOT]/cache/sess_2347b567ac19b6311324d0a6706d84cb, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)
    
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at [SYSTEM_ROOT]/core/include/general.inc:850)
    
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at [SYSTEM_ROOT]/core/include/general.inc:850)
    
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [SYSTEM_ROOT]/core/include/general.inc:850)
    
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [SYSTEM_ROOT]/core/include/general.inc:850)
    
    Login
    
    Currently Logged in as
    
    You need to login before you can access the backend
    Username:  
    Password:  
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    Unknown(): open(/applications/web/matrix/cache/sess_2347b567ac19b6311324d0a6706d84cb, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)
    
    
    Warning: fopen(/applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 850
    
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/general.inc on line 851
    
    Warning: Unable to Write to log file /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log [SYS0051] in /applications/web/matrix/core/include/locale_manager.inc on line 512
    
    PHP Warning
    Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/applications/web/matrix/cache)


Obviously there are permission errors.
I un-tarred the install as root on my system
and I've changed "data" and "cache" to be owned by apache:apache as the instructions dictate...

Thoughts?
Thank you.
2

Apache still cant write to /applications/web/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log


Can you check the permissions of that file to make sure the owner has write access.

3

It happened to me a few times.
The log files seem to be created very late in the install procedure by the user running the install.

I usually run the change of ownership on data/ and cache/ after step03 as well as before step01.



Edited: changed 'after' to 'before'.

4

I run this:

    # chown -R apache:apache *
    # find -type d | xargs chmod 2775
    # find -type f | xargs chmod 664


I do this after the last compile_locales.php during the installation process. The 2775 set setguid on the directories so that any new files/directories created will be owned by apache too.
5

Glad I'm not alone.
Avi, I assume thats in the /applications/web/matrix/ directory (in my case).

I'll give that a shot.



Thanks!

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    [root@portaldev logs]# ls -l
    total 76
    drwxrwsr-x    2 apache   apache       4096 Mar  6 01:17 CVS
    -rw-rw-r--    1 apache   apache       2906 Mar 29 15:23 error.log
    -rw-rw-r--    1 apache   apache      65457 Mar 29 15:27 system.log
    [root@portaldev logs]#


I ran the commands that Avi suggested, restarted apache, and I'm seeing the same errors.

Any other thoughts?
7

Are you sure that Apache is running as the "apache" user? Essentially, those files must be writable by the Apache/PHP process.

8

I went through all of this process after starting over with a clean install.
It's now generating a NEW error as documented in the new forum post I've made.



yes, the entire directory is set for apache:apache usage.

I even tried nobody:nobody as well just to see… same problem.



I've found someone who I can talk to face to face who's installed mysource, so I'm going to track him down, but any other advice is appreciated.



Thank you.

9

Check your php.ini settings, particularly safe_mode and open_basedir restrictions – perhaps PHP itself is preventing you from writing to those locations?