Topic: SME newbie file permissions problem

[Drylouvre]

Hi,

I've recently installed SME to evaluate for our company intranet. So far, I'm very pleased however I'm having a problem keeping file permissions set in an i-bay. I'm trying to install Expression Engine and it requires certain files to be either 666 or 777. I can FTP into the bay as Admin (as per the i-bay settings) but my FTP program (Transmit) won't let me remote CHMOD (something I can do normally). If I ssh in as root I can make the changes but they are always reset within a minute or so i.e. I go back to the FTP program and refresh and the permissions have changed again.

I'm obviously missing something simple but I can't figure out what it is.

Can anyone help please?

Cheers

Dry

[Per]

Permissions for an ibay are normaly set via Server-manager of that server.
The process is a bit different than setting it via an an FTP-client, but with a little bit of thougt it should be alright.

[Drylouvre]

Hi Per,

I think that I wasn't clear. These are individual files that I've uploaded as part of the Expression Engine package. I'm not able to change permissions on them via FTP (even though admin has write privileges). Then even if I ssh in as root and change the individual file permissions they do not persist.

I can't find this problem in the forums anywhere else and as far as I can see there is nothing in the docs about it.

Cheers

Dry

[Per]

OK.
I've done what you try to do (set special file permissions on individual files in an ibay), but that went just fine.
In my case it was the flat-text database-file for a public guestbook that needed write permissions.
So I'm afraid I can't help you any further....
If the problem persist and you can't  find help, I suggest you rise a bug in the bugtracker.
Good luck /Per

[Drylouvre]

Thanks Per,

The only way I could make this work was by completely removing the i-bay, rebooting, recreating it and then re-uploading all the files. Seems like it was a strange glitch.

Cheers

Dry