Maybe I’m stupi, but where should I put the “Forum Themes” and “Forum Plugins” folders. Because I can’t write in the “sp-resources” because it is owned by “99” (not me)
That suggests there is something amiss in your server setup as it should inherit the permissions and ownerships of the parent folder (in this case ‘wp-content’ of course). I am not a server expert so I can not advise on how to correct that as such.
But – you can actually store these folders (within wp-content) with whatever name you like. As long as their location and name is matched in the forum admin > wp integration > storage locations panel.
I will make sure Steve (Mr Papa) see’s this as he may have something useful to add.
Done that already, but since simple press writes in these folders, I was not sure what happens if I update these folders by hand.
Thanks!
That’s really why I have flagged this with Steve so he can chime in.
Updating them by hand is fine (plugins and themes folders that is) but clearly we want to get it right.
not sure how your server would have gotten those permissions… we couldnt set them… and we have a dozen or so folks using the nightlies and updating fine… what flavor of *nix do you have?
who owns sp-resources? should be same as any plugin in the plugins dir…
I guess sp-resources is created by simple-press during install (the owner is 99) so I suspect APACHE of PHP creates the folders as user 99 (whatever that is).
All other folders are created by me through FTP so I (wwwgolf) is the owner of those.
If I would like to make a manual update, I have to do it by means of FTP i.e. wwwgolf.
So what happens when you delete the sp-resources folder SP creates and the create it yourself manually.
SP nor WP defines the ownership of the folders. That is going to be down to your server.
It seems I have permission to rename the folder. So I manually recreated all folders and moved everything to sp-recources. Adjusted the paths in the storage locations accordingly.
Decided to hide the old sp-resources folder since I can’t delete it. It must be something in the system of my provider.
Now I can just drop the nightly updates in place.
Thanks!
For the record…
I’ve found my ISP willing to install SUPHP on my reuest. This resolved all my permission problems I had so far.