[EP-tech] Document upload folder permissions

[anbeeken at lincoln.ac.uk (Andrew Beeken)]

No, I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I've checked and it looks like selinux isn't installed. Is there an equivalent on Ubuntu?

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From: eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter West
Sent: 10 August 2017 10:26
To: eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Document upload folder permissions

Hi
are you using a red hat variant and is SELinux enabled? Is so try disabling SELinux.
Thanks
Peter

On 10/08/17 09:44, Andrew Beeken wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I'm taking advice on this from a couple of places so apologies for 
> cross posting - I'm having a funny one with file uploads in my new 
> EPrints instance. Documents just will not upload to records and I 
> think it might be a permissions thing. I've checked with our ICT 
> department and there are no firewall restrictions on the server. When 
> I try to upload the document in the workflow, I get a progress bar 
> briefly and then nothing - no metadata fields for the file, no 
> confirmation that it's even uploaded. I check the folder structure and 
> there's nothing there. The perms on the documents folder are chowned 
> by eprints:eprints, chmodded to 2775 - both recursively. I've set 
> apache to run as eprints:eprints, restarted apache, checked that the 
> process is definitely running as eprints, even restarted the browser. 
> Still nothing. I'm not sure where to go from here!
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
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