CODEWITHSUNDEEP
magento
user1829010
user1829010

Reputation: 173

Warning: Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions

I am new to Magento, I am trying to install a theme via magento connect manager, I copy and paste the extension key then click install and then proceed.I get error 'Warning: Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions.'

please give some solution .Any help would be highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 44932

Answers (7)

James N.
James N.

Reputation: 11

Of all of these what worked was public_html# find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; and chgrp -R www-data

This returns the ability to use Local file system as opposed to FTP

755 does not have group create and delete permissions so 775 worked

Return /media and /var permissions back to /public_html/media# find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \; /public_html/var# find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

Upvotes: 0

M'hammed Amine Asli
M'hammed Amine Asli

Reputation: 19

Here is a complete shell script that I wrote to help you setup permissions/ownership of your Magento Installation : mage-set-perms

The shell script is based on the recommendation of Magento official article found here

Upvotes: 1

James Spittal
James Spittal

Reputation: 237

I used the other solutions listed, e.g.:

cd /var/www/html
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; 
chmod -R 777 downloader var media

But I also had to do:

chown apache:apache /var/www/html

Since the web root directory was still owned by 'root:root' and causing problems (by continuing to display the Magento error message).

Upvotes: 0

JohnyFree
JohnyFree

Reputation: 1369

In my case this wasn't enough. I had to set 777 permision also to parent folder - public_html (NOT recursive).

Upvotes: 9

Douglas Tycho
Douglas Tycho

Reputation: 1

With me works with this reset permissions:

chmod -R 777 media/
chmod -R 755 var/

I follow some instructions in this url: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/resetting_file_permissions

Upvotes: 0

medina
medina

Reputation: 8169

go to Magento home directory and just give permissions for your webroot. 

e.g. (in ubuntu) : sudo chown -R www-data .

You could also change the permissions 

chmod 777  -R downloader/*

I hope it helps.

[EDIT]

How about in your magento directory (use sudo for below commands if required.):

find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

For the normal operation or installation of a Magento store, only 2 folders need to be writable:

/media - for web accessible files, such as product images
/var - for temporary (cache, session) and import/export files

Source here

Upvotes: 33

PiTheNumber
PiTheNumber

Reputation: 23542

To reset file permissions run:

find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
chmod 777 -R downloader var media

Upvotes: 10

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