Question

I have an ubuntu server 11.10 with apache 2.2.20, php 5.3.6 and an installation of Joomla cms. I have used an extra hard disk as my web server storage and mounted it into /data/www/ (I hope it’s not where my problem us!).

I’ve set permission of all files and folders in my web root to 755 and user groups for them is set to [default ubuntu user(in my case radio)]:www-data.

In past days I had serious problems with joomla not showing new uploaded images and other files and also I can’t install any extensions. After hours of searching I found out that uploaded files don’t have appropriate permission (they are -rw——-) and Joomla application cannot read, copy or move them after upload.

I’m wondering how can I set a default permission so all files that I upload use it?

PS: I’ve tested umask but it did nothing. I think it has nothing to do with my problem.

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer.
After hours of research and trying, I managed to solve my problem by disabling FTP (I’ve used vsftpd) and adding umask to apache configuration, not to php files. Now everything is working fine and all chmods are ok (755).

BTW: I don’t know why it was uploading files with minimum access.