Having some permission problems with Linux (mysql 4.1)
Basically when I tried to attach a file or download a file from the post it will give this error . "The requested file upload failed because suitable permissions have not been enabled on the 'uploads' directory. Please contact the board administrator and inform them of this error."
Ok the funny thing is that I've chmod that directory to 777 already yet I still have this problem. As a matter of fact that leads me to another problem which is basically that I would have to chmod almost all folders to 777. Like when I change a skin it *needs* the write ability to the skin folders.. yet it shouldn't need a 777 since I'm the owner.
Right now I"m just trying to make the upload and dl attachment works. But someone probably could give me some advice to solve the whole problem.
I have Linux/Cpanel on my server. What I did was basically update mysql from 4.0.25 to 4.1 (I did this because one of the things I run requires 4.1). I know there could be some issues from updating so I looked up on what I need to do. I think I did all of it.
Solutions I've tried.
Basically I ran the update script so that I would be able to use the grant command in mysql 4.1. I went in thru SSH after and gave someone an all grant permission. After that I know it was working since the "all grant" I gave allows him to connect thru mysql administrator and gave him all access to the databases. I gave all access to the user that was running the forum (which was me btw) and then I was thinking I would be considered an "owner" of that yet I am not somehow.
I thought perhaps it could be my .htaccess that was causing the problem so I disabled it but I still am unable to upload or dl attachment on the forum.
Any idea what could be the problem? and what I could do to solve it?
Could it be a setting in apache (I had to recompile apache after I installed mysql 4.1)? or some other thing? The forum seems to be writing to the database without an issue so perhaps the databases permissions are ok.
I know I could downgrade to mysql 4.0.25 but I rather not if I can solve this issue.
Thanks for reading!
