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I keep getting errors when trying to upload to my tmp directory, it always fails if I try by URL or upload. The only way it works is via a direct upload Joomla extension.

As I have root access I have made sure permissions and ownership are correct and that the file path to my tmp folder is correct in global of admin as well as configuration.php so I am trying to figure out why it keeps failing.

I have chown apache:root on all my Joomla folders with permissions 755 and the path is mysite.com/joomla as it is in a sub-directory but all else works except for this. Also I noticed each time I do an install it fails to create the configuration.php file. Have I got ownership and permissions correct?

Update

The error was a number of things coming up but the main thing persisting that I remember and that is still there is tmp file folder not writable. I ended up clearing the cache via command and since then everything works but this one error message on tmp folder remains in warnings.

Further to this I reinstalled latest 3.6 with exact same ownership and permissions but used wget command for tar file and now it is all working no errors.

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  • Can you clarify what you mean by "by url or upload"?
    – Craig
    Commented Nov 13, 2014 at 0:34
  • when you choose option to upload via a url address or via a folder locally.
    – cea
    Commented Nov 16, 2014 at 8:14

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Open your apache configuration file and add these lines of code:

User apache
Group root

The file may be located in /etc/apache2 directory for example /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

As an alternative you may consider changing the ownership of files/folders to www-data:www-data recursively because this is the default user/group of apache:

chown -R www-data:www-data YOUR_JOOMLA_BASE_DIR
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  • used to working with drupal and always set folders apache:root and 755 which always worked...is joomla different ?
    – cea
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 8:50
  • none of the above works but thanks.
    – cea
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 9:02
  • It's weird. These solutions have worked for all of my local projects. BTW I forgot to mention that when you use the first method, you must restart the apache server (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart) or for the second method you must be a super user (type sudo before chown). Maybe this solve the issue.
    – Farahmand
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 12:13
  • yes i did all that but on mine its service httpd restart - so i am just using the joomla ext to upload and having to avoid any upload from url or local files.
    – cea
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 23:40
  • plus on centos it is actually apache:root that needs to be ownership and you never declare this in /etc/httpd/conf.d/conf file
    – cea
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 23:41
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sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

is the command used in centos to completely clear caches and after that still got the error but at least everything is working now.

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