The "/cache" directory must be writable by the web server!

ctuxboy

Hello,
I restart my hobby project https://dogvalley.be/ after almost a year.
I this time a like testing other flatfile CMS-systems, but honestly Automad is my favorite 🙂
The reason:

it works fantatstic
and very important @mad do awesome work with Automad, working hard for up-to-date Automad and soon there is a newer version (2.0) and this give me motiviation rebuild my project with Automad.

So i want revive my project with Automad.

Ok, back to work:
Normal i develop my websites online/on my hosting, the reason: all the settings works out-of-the-box (e.g. no permission issues and so on)

Now i trying setup manual a local webserver on my Chromebook (no Xampp) , in a linux environment (Crostini) .

What i'm afraid for and became reality are permission issues 🙁

I found docs on the Automad website about installing locally, but this howto's are not linux related.

Follow these steps for installing the apache-webserver.

After that type this commend for accessing webserver's root-dir:
$sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www

Now i can adding and showing php-files and subdirs, and browse to this files and dirs without problems.

After that copy Automad to a subdir, and gowing to http://100.115.92.202/dogvalley/, but gives this error:

Permission denied!
The "/cache" directory must be writable by the web server!

Someone knows how can i solve this issue? Or what the correct permissions are for all the dirs and files in Automad?

mad

ctuxboy Hi there, in your case $USER is probably not the user that runs PHP. There a couple of things to keep in mind:

How is your PHP setup? Module or PHP-FPM?
What user is running PHP?

What happened in your case is that you gave yourself all permissions to the root directory and therefore PHP has no longer permissions.

You have the following options:

Make the user that runs PHP the owner of the root directory — then you don’t have permissions anymore yourself
Change the PHP user to your own user — only do this in a local dev environment

All this is actually not really specific to Automad and there are too many options for setting up a webserver. Therefore this exceeds a little bit the scope of the docs.

ctuxboy

mad ,

Thanks for your fast answer.
I know it is not Automad related, but maybe some users has experience with this.
Okay, my knowledge goes no far enough for doing all this things, i spent a few hours for setup this basic webserver.
Change the user and so on, i don't know.
I hope it was less difficult setup a local webserver, but i spent to mutch hours for simple things.
Appreciate your help @mad , your a pro-developer, i'm a hobby dev with basic knowledge, so out-of-the-box change things,... not so simple for me.
So the best option for me is again working remote on my shared hosting. This option has know issues, and works out-of-the-box.

mad

ctuxboy Hi, in case you use PHP as module, like XAMPP does, you can easily change the webserver user to your own username in the httpd.conf.

ctuxboy

mad first thank for help me.
In the past try using Xampp, but have also permission issues. I know Xampp is more 'friendly' instead of manually installing and configure the apache webserver.
So the best option is working remote on my shared hosting 😉