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Title: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: mophilly on November 08, 2017, 12:45:15 AM: I have installed WordPress into an ibay on SME 9, with Software Collections installed. To enable WordPress "Permalinks", a pretty url option, I added AllowOverride and FollowSymLinks to the ibay using "db accounts" commands. Afterward, the web site would not all me access at all.

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db accounts setprop IBAYNAME AllowOverride All; db accounts setprop IBAYNAME FollowSymLinks enabled; signal-event ibay-modify IBAYNAME;
The next access of the site resulted in a Forbidden error, "You don't have permission to access /pops-support/ on this server."

Removing the db variables allowed the site to load again.

What is the proper way to customize an ibay for WordPress in SME 9?
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: SchulzStefan on November 08, 2017, 12:25:46 PM: I assume you read this: https://wiki.contribs.org/Wordpress_Multisite

I'm no wordpress user, so I don't know if your problem is covered in the howto.

regards,
stefan
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: mophilly on November 08, 2017, 05:32:13 PM: Thank you. That page is helpful. I recall the text from years ago when I set up wordpress on an older server.

One thing that comes to mind today is the impact of using PHP 5.6 via Software Collections. If I change the ibay properties, is there some additional step I need to complete for the SC PHP56 to "see" the changed properties?
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: Stefano on November 08, 2017, 05:55:36 PM: take a look here: https://wiki.contribs.org/PHP_Software_Collections#Usage
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: mmccarn on November 10, 2017, 01:18:56 PM: The "ibay-modify" event resets the user and group settings for all files and folders within the i-bay.

Do you know if your file and folder settings are still OK?

When I was using wordpress on SME (SME 8 ), I would change the ibay "Group" setting to "www" to retain access after running ibay-modify. If I recall correctly, "www" was not an option for ibay group membership in server-manager, so I made the change at the command line.

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# Make a note of [old group name] using the command below: db accounts getprop IBAYNAME Group # Then set Group to "www" and re-run ibay-modify db accounts setprop IBAYNAME Group www signal-event ibay-modify
To UNDO:
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db accounts setprop IBAYNAME Group [old group name] signal-event ibay-modify
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: calisun on December 19, 2017, 11:53:11 PM: Quote from: SchulzStefan on November 08, 2017, 12:25:46 PM
I assume you read this: https://wiki.contribs.org/Wordpress_Multisite
Quote from: Mophilly on November 08, 2017, 05:32:13 PM
Thank you. That page is helpful. ....

You are welcome :)

I am happy that people use and share my creation :)
Title: Re: adding config property breaks ibay hosting WordPress
Post by: mophilly on December 22, 2017, 06:07:14 PM: Thanks to all who replied. The app is set up and working as desired.

file ownership and permission were a major factor. Once set appropriately things improved greatly. Verifying the config properties also helped.

Here is what I ended up using to set the file ownership. The file permissions are set to match recommendation at wordpress.org.

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cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/custom-wp/html/ chown -R www:wpcoders *
And here is result of modifying the ibay config...
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db accounts show custom-wp custom-wp=ibay AllowOverride=all CgiBin=enabled FollowSymLinks=enabled Group=wpcoders Indexes=disabled MaxExecTime=90 MemoryLimit=128M Name=Custom WordPress site PHPBaseDir=/home/e-smith/files/ibays/custom-wp/html/:/tmp/ PhpVersion=php71 PublicAccess=global UserAccess=wr-group-rd-everyone