chmod on shared webspace not allowed

[chrizz]

I just moved another site to PW and I am currently in the process of testing it on a staging environment (in debug mode).

The website is hosted on a shared webspace with limited access. This is why I get an error like this once I logged out:

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /www/htdocs/customersite/stage/wire/core/Functions.php on line 298

My questions about this: why PW tries to change permissions?

Thanks and happy eastern everyone!

[pwired]

Try to update the modules manager and the JqueryDataTables module

[chrizz]

maybe a dumb question, but: where do I find these 2 modules?

Couldn't find them in the Modules section (ProcessWire 2.5.22 dev )

[Wanze]

@chrizz

You can set the permissions for files/folder required by your webserver in the config.php file. Most of the time, this is 644 for files and 755 for folders.

Example: Some folders must be writeable for ProcessWire, therefore the system tries to change the permissions of those folders.

In this case, the problem is (most likely) that your user executing the script on the webserver does not have write permission on a file/folder where ProcessWire tries to change the permissions. How did you upload the files to your staging environment? Maybe you need to set the correct permissions before uploading or correct the permissions on the server.

Cheers