[Piwik-hackers] 777 rights: why?

Matthieu Aubry matthieu.aubry at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 01:51:45 CEST 2008


Hi,
Good point, Piwik should need write access to the config file only when 
we try to write something.
I fixed that in SVN, does it work with your config now?

Coltof Remko wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I was wondering exactly what dirs/files need 777 rights and why. It 
> seems a bit too much/open to make the main PiWik dir 777.
>
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> I already installed PiWik with 777 rights. It installed just fine. 
>  And now I changed the rights back, and I get this message:
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> *Piwik couldn't write to some directories*.
>
> Try to Execute the following commands on your Linux server:
>
> |chmod 777 /piwik/html|
> |chmod 777 /piwik/html/config|
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>  
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> I don't understand why PiWik wants to write anything to the server 
> since I already configured everything correctly.
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> Thanks!
>
>  
>
> Remko
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