Rogo Install – directory permissions

For Rogo install, we had to give the Apache user permissions to write to various directories (https://suivarro.nottingham.ac.uk/trac/rogo/wiki/Permission):

  • /help/staff/images
  • /help/student/images
  • /media
  • /temp
  • /qti/imports (not in Wiki at the time)
  • /qti/exports (not in Wiki at the time)
  • /config (only for install to allow config.inc.php to be written. Not on Wiki at the time)

To find out the user/user ID and group/group ID for the Apache user, I did the following:

  • In Putty, “ps aux | grep apache” to find out username of Apache user (wwwrun)
  • Looked in etc/passwd to find out user ID (30) and group ID (8) – wwwrun:x:30:8:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/bin/false
  • Checked group/group ID in etc/group
  • In WinSCP, changed permissions, giving the above user/group info: user = wwwrun [30], group = www [8]. Gave this user permission over the whole help directory.

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