MidgardBlobDir permission - how to set it right..

http://www.privaterra.org/blog-rg/midgardblobdir-permission.html

Ever since my last system restore i’ve had a rather nagging error,  
one which I couldn’t quite track down - that allowed me to use  
Midgard, but not post pictures, upload attachments, nor write custom  
data.

I wasn’t sure what the problem was - if it was a coding issue, a  
style error, or something to do with the restored files. Well, after  
weeks of looking and experimenting - I have finally narrowed down  
exactly what the issue is, and yes how to fix it.

It seems that for some reason during the last disk restore the  
permissions related to the Midgard Blob directory wasn’t set  
properly. Consequently it needs to be fixed..

First, I looked in the config file @ /etc/midgard/apache/vhosts/ and  
looked for the location of the MidgardBlobDir

[snipped]

MidgardBlobDir /var/lib/midgard/blobs/midgard

[snipped]

so it is set to /var/lib/midgard/blobs/midgard . I then execute the  
following commands to set the permissions :

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/midgard/blobs
chmod -R +rw /var/lib/midgard/blobs/midgard/

Then, i head back to midgard and try to upload a photo - and it  
works! I try uploading an attachment to a blog entry , and it works  
too! yeah!

So the lesson is learned - if there’s an error when uploading  
attachments or pictures…investigate the permissions of the Blob  
directory to make sure it is set correctly.




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Robert Guerra <rguerra-ml4S53UB+/[email protected]>
Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>