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Permissions and upload folder location

Thread began 2/08/2010 3:26 pm by marek | Last modified 2/09/2010 4:34 pm by Dani Chankhour | 1111 views | 3 replies |

marek

Permissions and upload folder location

Hi all-
I did not see anything in the documentation about settings permissions for PowerCMS... Can someone please direct me? I cannot upload or browse images. Why would this not be included in documentation?

Also - how do I change the location of the upload folder? I see in previous posts that the following was available in the WA_globals.php file, but I don't see it...

$WAGLOBAL_Images_Folder = "../image_folder";

Was this setting removed in a recent update? If so, how do I change the folder that PCMS uploads to?

Thanks!
Marek

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Dani Chankhour

Correct, in the recent update we removed those settings from the WA_Globals. The HTMLEditor will create a files/cms_files folder and it will use that folder to store your images, but if you wanted to update that, open your cofiguration.php file which is located under HTMLEditor/editor/plugins/kfm/ and change those two settings to the folder you want to upload to:

$kfm_userfiles_address = '../../../../files';

$kfm_userfiles_output = 'files/';


In addition if use the upload tab in the image upload, you also need to change the config.php which is located under HTMLEditor/editor/filemanager/connector/php and change this setting:

$Config['UserFilesPath'] = 'files/' ;

to match where you want the files to be uploaded.

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marek

Thanks Dani.

How about permissions? Because PowerCMS is creating a folder I assume that 777 needs to be set on the entire "CMS folder? That of course opens up a huge security hole. So is there another way around it? Maybe I could create the "cms_files" folder for PowerCMS and only set write settings on that folder? (to avoid giving write settings to the entire CMS folder)

Please explain how we can allow uploads and browsing, but at the same time minimize security issues.

Marek

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Dani Chankhour

Yeah, in your CMS folder create a folder and call it "files" and give that folder 777 permissions. This should resolve the permission issue. If you are still getting the issue, try creating another folder inside the files folder and call it "cms_files" and give it the same permissions.

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