Cant change Joomla Template top banner?: 553 Rename/move failure: Permission denied - UK Web Hosting | Dedicated Server Windows and Linux VPS Forum

**RSVEcosse** · #1 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 17:48

Trying to edit a Joomla Template and change the top banner.

I've set CHMOD File Permissions to 666 and Direcectory Permissions to 777 but when I try and upload the image of the new top banner into

/public_html/templates/ja_nerine/images

....via CuteFTP it gives me the "553 Rename/move failure: Permission denied" error.

Any way around this?.

Kinda defeats the purpose of editable Joomla templates if you cant change the header images of the template!!!

**eUKhost.com** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 19:27

directory ownership seems to be setup to nobody:nobody so we will need to sort that. let me know the domain which has got this problem.

**RSVEcosse** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 19:33

Hi.

Its my main domain, www.gwlogic.com

However, I have found a sort of "workaround" via some searching on the Joomla forums.

I installed JoomlaXplorer and I really wish I had done so earlier!!!!.

Editing and moving images around with it is an absolute breeze!!.

Thankfully, the current template from Joomla I'm using on that main/root website hosting of mine is just WIP, I'm really just trying to get to grips with Joomla and learning as I go.

**eUKhost.com** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 19:47

I have sorted this.

As I said that the permissions on the directories created by Joomla was nobody:nobody and it has been changed to gwlogic:gwlogic

**RSVEcosse** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 19:58

Thanks, it all seems to be working through CuteFTP now.

However, a lot of the options I had in JoomlaXplorer are now "greyed out" such as the "Delete" buttons in the Images folder of the templates.

Is there something I need to alter within it since the change you have made?.

Thanks.

**eUKhost.com** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 20:09

thats the problem. If I leave it with nobody:nobody permission then you can delete from Joomla admin panel but it wont work with FTP. If I give your permission to files and folders then it will work with cuteftp but not from Joomla panel.

do you want me to revert the nobody:nobody permission now since you have finished FTP work ?

**RSVEcosse** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 20:12

Hi m8, no....I'll just use FTP now since you have changed it.

Appreciate the help, I'm more used to using CuteFTP than JoomlaXplorer anyway!!!.

Thanks again for the assistance.

**eUKhost.com** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-10-2007, 20:26

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Originally Posted by RSVEcosse

Hi m8, no....I'll just use FTP now since you have changed it.

Appreciate the help, I'm more used to using CuteFTP than JoomlaXplorer anyway!!!.

Thanks again for the assistance.

Cheers !

It is better to use FTP rather than leaving nobody:nobody permission on joomla files and folders. You are first to say that you like to do things using FTP. other customers insist on having insecure permissions for their joomla installation.

**littleba** · #9 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 16:01

When you upload through Joomla (adding components etc, or uploading files through extensions) the files are given nobody:nobody permissions. Apart from asking the system administrators to change the ownership for every file, is there a way that users can do this? It's not that users want to use nobody:nobody permissions, it's that we don't know how to avoid it!

So, if anyone knows how to change the default ownership set by Joomla, could they let the rest of us into the secret?

Thanks

**jc8654** · #10 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 16:19

I had something similar in wordpress I think. I was to do with permissions and modifying it through the program. It wasn't just simple modification of file permissions either but I got it sorted in the end.

**littleba** · #11 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 16:28

I've just trawled the Joomla forums - and found the "solution" - but it needs help from our system admins. Technically it is possible to use an Apache command "suexec" to change the user that is used by Apache - and thus is used for creating files.

So, the question (for those who know how Apache works) is whether it is possible for users to specify that their website hostings run under their own user ids. Over to the sys admins!

**eUKhost.com** · #12 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 16:44

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Originally Posted by littleba

I've just trawled the Joomla forums - and found the "solution" - but it needs help from our system admins. Technically it is possible to use an Apache command "suexec" to change the user that is used by Apache - and thus is used for creating files.

So, the question (for those who know how Apache works) is whether it is possible for users to specify that their website hostings run under their own user ids. Over to the sys admins!

We have phpsuexec enabled on one of our server so you can request to move your account on that server. phpsuexec allows scripts and webpages to execute under ownership of user only.

**littleba** · #13 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 17:11

Fantastic. I have put in a support ticket to avoid putting account details on the forum. Many thanks for the fast response.

**eUKhost.com** · #14 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 20:30

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Originally Posted by littleba

Fantastic. I have put in a support ticket to avoid putting account details on the forum. Many thanks for the fast response.

Cheers !

feel free to contact me if you face any problem in the transfer process.

**littleba** · #15 (**permalink**) 21-10-2007, 10:48

Thanks, the move started last night - the old name servers have been updated to show the account has expired, and I have been sent the IP address for the new server. However, things seem to have stalled. The files (and CPanel) are still on the old server, and I cannot access the new server at all. I've replied to the email giving the new details. So, my website hosting is in limbo at the moment (but I've redirected the domains to point to the new name servers ready for when the move completes)

**littleba** · #16 (**permalink**) 21-10-2007, 11:00

Thanks to the team for sorting this out quickly. Things seem to be working - I just have to wait for the change to the name servers to find its way through the internet!

**eUKhost.com** · #17 (**permalink**) 21-10-2007, 14:43

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