11.04, copy a directory

You can take ownership of the directory. Currently, the owner is probably an administrative user such as the admin login used to administer the site.

You can verify this with a long directory listing. In a terminal:

ls -l /media/USB\ DISK/

you should see the directory in question (filename on the far right)

On the left you will see something that looks like drwxr-xr-x which is the access rights for owner,group,others and then a decimal number, then the owner and group.

Make a note of the owner and group if you ever want to copy this website back onto the server.

Now change the owner/group recursively so that you have full access including read and write:

sudo chown -R username:username /media/USB\ DISK/siedlung_im_tal

Where 'username' should be replaced by your login id.

You should verify the change of ownership with the ls -l command again. If all is well you should be able to copy and use the files with your normal login.

Chris.

Hi Chris

Thanks for your answer. But it didn't help.

The owner and the group was set correct. If I make ls -la /media/USB DISK/siedlung_im_tal, all the directories have a rwx as access rights. But there a php-files they have only a rw as access rights. These files are called configuration.php and index.php.

I guess, this will be the problem. I made sudo chmod 777 for this two files, but it didn't help. I'm still missing the x in the access rights.

The following is the output of ls -la /media/USB DISK/siedlung_im_tal:

peter@peter-linux:~$ ls -la '/media/USB DISK/siedlung_im_tal'
total 384
drwx------ 15 peter peter 16384 2011-06-18 19:03 .
drwx------ 10 peter peter 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 ..
drwx------ 10 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 administrator
drwx------ 2 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 cache
drwx------ 12 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 components
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1749 2011-06-18 19:03 configuration.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 3189 2011-04-07 17:47 htaccess.txt
drwx------ 4 peter peter 16384 2011-07-01 11:19 images
drwx------ 2 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 includes
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1389 2011-02-21 20:44 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1245 2011-04-19 04:11 joomla.xml
drwx------ 4 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 language
drwx------ 6 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 libraries
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 17816 2009-12-12 16:44 LICENSE.txt
drwx------ 2 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 logs
drwx------ 8 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 media
drwx------ 25 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 modules
drwx------ 10 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 4493 2011-01-09 03:40 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 849 2011-04-03 02:43 robots.txt
drwx------ 6 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 templates
drwx------ 2 peter peter 16384 2011-04-19 04:11 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1811 2011-04-07 17:30 web.config.txt

What can I do? Thanks a lot.
Peter

According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joomla#Configure%20Access%20Rights the files for a Joomla web site have to be owned by www-data:www-data
Please check again with the Joomla documentation!

Hi Manfred

The username must be peter. www-data:www-data is only written as an example. Thanks.
Peter

Are you sure that your apache server runs under the 'peter' user ID?
You should be able to check by issuing the command
ps ax | grep apache

Maybe the following commands from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joomla#Configure%20Access%20Rights help

cd /siedlung_im_tal #or whatever the name of your directory is
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Hi Manfred

I love you *l. The problem has saved.

It's strange. I used the two sudo commands already, but I got an error message.

Thanks a lot!
Peter