[ckan-dev] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/ckan/ (no solution works)

[Alex Gartner]

Do you have maybe SELinux enabled on CentOS? That could block apache from
writing to non-default folders. You could use 'sestatus' to see if it's
enabled.
More info here https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 02:43, Biz Tweets <optweets at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am just running it on apache on centos otherwise known as httpd.
>
> I have this exact install on 2 other VMs and it has no issue like this. I
> did the same install.
>
> wsgi runs the python.
>
> here is the output of var  and var/lib
>
> drwxr-xr-x.  22 root root 4096 Nov  8 14:59 var
>
> drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 4096 Nov  8 14:43 lib
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:29 PM Karen Turner <karen at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> One option is the execute bit is not set on the parent directories.
>> /var and /var/lib have x  set?
>>
>> What is running the python code?  We use gunicorn and that runs as a
>> different user to the nginx that forwards the requests.
>>
>> Cheers
>>    Karen
>>
>> On 9/11/18 1:08 PM, Biz Tweets wrote:
>> > As you can see my httpd is running as the user apache. Not sure whats
>> > going on here.
>> >
>> > |root 23020 0.0 0.0 239820 5992 ? Ss Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> > -DFOREGROUND apache 23021 0.8 0.6 820676 113512 ? Sl Nov08 0:03
>> > ckan_default -DFOREGROUND apache 23022 0.6 0.6 814476 107620 ? Sl Nov08
>> > 0:03 ckan_default -DFOREGROUND apache 23023 0.0 0.0 514548 8872 ? Sl
>> > Nov08 0:00 demo -DFOREGROUND apache 23024 0.0 0.0 244104 7724 ? S Nov08
>> > 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 23025 0.0 0.0 244104 7464 ? S
>> > Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 23026 0.0 0.0 244104 6960
>> > ? S Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 23027 0.0 0.0 244104
>> > 6960 ? S Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 23028 0.0 0.0
>> > 244104 6960 ? S Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 23091 0.0
>> > 0.0 244104 6960 ? S Nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND|
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:05 PM Biz Tweets <optweets at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:optweets at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I set my storage folder as /var/lib/ckan.
>> >
>> >     Everytime i try to upload a file through resource create i get this
>> >     error
>> >
>> >     [Thu Nov 08 23:59:50.286522 2018] [:error] [pid 23021] [remote
>> >     10.172.24.4:76 <http://10.172.24.4:76>] Error - <type
>> >     'exceptions.OSError'>: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> >     '/var/lib/ckan/resources/ecf'
>> >
>> >     Now i tried everything.
>> >
>> >     I ran all of these commands and nothing has helped.
>> >
>> >     My httpd runs on the user apache.
>> >     sudo chown -R apache /var/lib/ckan
>> >     sudo chmod -R u+rwx /var/lib/ckan
>> >     sudo chmod 777 -R /var/lib/ckan
>> >
>> >     But nothing works. Do I have some funky permissions issue going on
>> >     here??
>> >
>> >     [user at ckanserverckan]$ ls -l
>> >     drwxr-xr-x. 2 apache apache 4096 Nov 8 23:45 resources
>> >     drwxr-xr-x. 2 apache apache 4096 Nov 8 23:57 storage
>> >
>> >
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