[TriLUG] Linux directory problem? solution found

[Andrew Perrin]

Sounds like a very reasonable, efficiency decision to me. Just 
unsatisfying as an existential question!

No, I wasn't at the social - somehow haven't managed to break away from 
family life for TriLUG events so far!

Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, James c. Jones wrote:

> Andy,
>
> Normally, I would continue to search for an answer, but I wanted to get
> my website back to working and suspected the the directory was
> corrupted. It happened ( or at least I first noticed it ) after I had
> uploaded a file to one of the areas of the wordpress blog.
>
> I know that my "solution" was similar to re-installing windows and I am
> ashamed of that aspect of the "solution".
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Were you at the social last night?
>
> jcj
>
>
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>> Glad you're happy -- sounds pretty unsatisfying; would prefer to know what
>> was wrong!
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, James c. Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I copied the directory & it's sub-directories plus contents to another
>>> location. Deleted wp-content directory, etc. and re-install the
>>> directory plus contents from other location. All is well with the world.
>>> wordpress is happy. JC is happy.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the comments. It helps to know that you have helpful people
>>> in your corner.
>>>
>>> jcj
>>>
>>> James c. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> I may have steered you all wrong. I had removed x from the directory in
>>>> hopes that the green would go away. It didn't make a difference. I have
>>>> since added it back and the results are still the same.
>>>>
>>>> jcj
>>>> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> You need x permission for wordpress to enter the directory. Given that the
>>>>> directory is root/root, you probably need:
>>>>>
>>>>>   chmod a+x wp-content
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>>>>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>>>>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, James c. Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ls -ld wp-content
>>>>>> drw-rw-rw- 4 root root 4096 Aug  8  2006 wp-content
>>>>>> jcj
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's the output of:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ls -ld <directory name>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>>>>>>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>>>>>>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, James c. Jones wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have ssh-ed into my server using a ubuntu terminal. My server is
>>>>>>>> Fedora Core 5. Most files appear in black against a white background,
>>>>>>>> most directories appear in blue against white background.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have one directory that appears with a green background behind the
>>>>>>>> directory name. It doesn't appear to be permission related, but I am not
>>>>>>>> sure. I am having trouble accessing information from this directory from
>>>>>>>> php access in wordpress. ( actually no access ).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any Ideas would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> jcj
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