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

[Biz Tweets]

Well it worked!

After a whole day of struggling. Thanks for pointing this out.

Its interesting that this happened on Azure but not on  a local VM instance.

Thank you!

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:14 AM Alex Gartner <
alexandru.gartner+ckan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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