SOLVED [SOLVED] Owner/group permission issues in public_html

[msklut]

We are experiencing errors such as "directory does not exist, or has no write permissions" or "Permission denied in /home/adminuser/public_html/system..." or "Permission denied in /home/adminuser/storage/logs...".

/public_html/
drwxr-x---  18 adminuser nobody   4096 Apr 27 09:59 public_html
drwxr-xr-x  9 adminuser adminuser     4096 Apr 21 11:18 system

/storage/  (located outside public_html)
drwxr-xr-x  12 adminuser adminuser 4096 Mar 31 15:13 storage
drwxrwxrwx  2 adminuser adminuser  4096 Apr 27 10:42 logs

public_html is set to 0750. The others should be 0755 for folders inside public_html and 0644 for files. In order to bypass 'directory does not exist' or 'permission denied' errors, we have temporarily set some folders such as 'logs' to 0777, which presents a big security risk. Does anyone have suggestions? Are there issues with the folder ownership settings?

DEFAULT PHP: ea-php74
ea-php74 SAPI: dso

 

[ffeingol]

It's going to be pretty hard to answer you within knowing what scripting language you are using. If it's PHP, we'd need to know what PHP handler you are using.

 

[msklut]

It's going to be pretty hard to answer you within knowing what scripting language you are using. If it's PHP, we'd need to know what PHP handler you are using.

[~]# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_phpconf --current
DEFAULT PHP: ea-php74
ea-php74 SAPI: dso

 

[cPRex]

Using DSO could be the issue - there are some additional details here:

PHP Handlers | cPanel & WHM Documentation

PHP handlers contain libraries that the Apache web server uses to interpret and run PHP code.

docs.cpanel.net

 

[msklut]

Using DSO could be the issue - there are some additional details here:

PHP Handlers | cPanel & WHM Documentation

PHP handlers contain libraries that the Apache web server uses to interpret and run PHP code.

docs.cpanel.net

Interesting... would you suggest CGI or suPHP instead?

 

[cPRex]

I use suPHP on my personal box with WordPress and PHP sites to avoid any permissions issues like this, so that's what I'd recommend.

 

[msklut]

I use suPHP on my personal box with WordPress and PHP sites to avoid any permissions issues like this, so that's what I'd recommend.

Thank you for the suggestion! suPHP seemed to clear up a lot of the permission issues. Still seeing this one... Any ideas what would be causing it?

PHP Warning:  fwrite(): supplied resource is not a valid stream resource in /home/adminuser/storage/modification/system/library/log.php on line 31
PHP Warning:  fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, bool given in /home/adminuser/storage/modification/system/library/log.php on line 31

File/folder permissions:

/storage/
drwxr-xr-x  5 adminuser adminuser  4096 Apr 23 08:15 modification

/storage/modification/
drwxr-xr-x  5 adminuser adminuser 4096 Apr 23 08:15 system

/storage/modification/system/
drwxr-xr-x 5 adminuser adminuser 4096 Apr 25 10:25 library

/storage/modification/system/library
-rw-r--r-- 1 adminuser adminuser  995 Apr 23 08:15 log.php

Line 31 on log.php

public function write($message) {
        fwrite($this->handle, date('Y-m-d G:i:s') . ' - ' . print_r($message, true) . "\n" . 'URL: ' . (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : '') . "\n" . ' REFFER: ' . (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : '') . "\n" . '------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------' . "\n");

 

[cPRex]

That seems more like a PHP error than a permissions error, so I don't have much to provide on my side of things for that.

 

[msklut]

That seems more like a PHP error than a permissions error, so I don't have much to provide on my side of things for that.

OK. I edited the post to include the code from the log.php file in case there's anything relevant...

 

[msklut]

After several hours looking into this, the issue was File Protect needed to be disabled it for our folder permissions to work correctly. Thank you to cPanel analyst Brian J. for saving the day!

 

[cPRex]

I'm glad our team was able to help with that!