Deployment issues

[artaylor]

Hi,

I have deployed a PW 2.4 site to a shared domain as an addon domain. The URL is http://www.upasana.ca. I have run into the following issues:

1. If I use the .htaccess file that ships with PW 2.4 I get an "Internal Server Error". I have PW 2.3 sites as addons and they are working. If I copy the .htaccess file from PW 2.3 the site appears to work. The main site is a PW 2.3 site so I don't know if there is a conflict between the addon domain having PW 2.4.

2. I am getting an unstyled login and admin system. I think this might be permissions. When I check the permissions for the /wire folders they are 755 and files are 600. I do not know if the files should be 644 but I don't want to mess with the wire folders unless I know what is supposed to be there.

Thanks,

Anthony

[adrian]

I would try again with the 2.4 htaccess file, but take a look at the RewriteBase setting in the 2.3 version that is working and copy that across.

[artaylor]

@adrian: Thanks for the suggestion.

I just heard back from the hosting support. It was the "SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On" line that needed to be commented out.  So that solves issue number one. I still have the unstyled admin problem.

[artaylor]

It does seem to be file permissions. I changed the file permissions in the /wire/modules/AdminTheme/AdminThemeDefault/styles from 600 to 644 and now I am getting some styling. My question is, can I just CHMOD all the files in all the folders in /wire to 644 or is this going to create a problem?

[adrian]

644 is standard for files on most server configurations. I am curious why they ended up as 600 in the first place though?

In case you don't know, and you have terminal access, this will recursively set all files to 644:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

and if you ever need to do any changes to just folders, this will do the trick:

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 

[artaylor]

@adrian. Thanks again.

I thought this was the case, but I did not want to open up the site for security problems by changing file permissions in the wrong place. I will go do this.

Thanks for the commands as well. I appreciate you taking the extra time!

[adrian]

No problem,

Having given you those commands, please remember that permissions are not the only thing that must be considered. You must also take into account the owner/group of the files, which is why some web hosts will need different permissions to others for things to work as expected. The typical setup however works with the 755/644 that you are used to seeing.

This is a reasonably decent writeup of things if you are interested in a read:

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/309527-understanding-linux-file-permissions

[artaylor]

Thanks for all the help.

Got SSH access and CHMOD's the files and it is working now.