Courses not loading

[miked51]

We have spent a considerable amount of time (2days) trying to solve a problem with version 1.8.8.4.and we noticed that there has been mention of the same error on other forum posts going back 2 years. Chamilo installs oky but after making a course and trying to click on it generates the error,
This post will also be in developers suggestions just in case it's not read here.
The error message is as follows
"[Mon Apr 02 11:54:12 2012] [error] [client 74.220.197.216] SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "/home4/bluemon3/public_html/beaeducation/bea-distance-education/courses/THAI1/index.php" is writeable by group, referer: http://www.bea-education.org/bea-distan ... e_list.php"

The Bluehost server we use, uses suPHPgroup writable permissions will cause a 500 internal server error. The problem was corrected with the following command to remove write permissions from group and other:

chmod -R go-w ~/public_html/

This now loads the course. If the script in Chamilo makes new courses with group writable permissions, the script needs tweaking it so that new directories use 755 permissions and new files use 644. The umask on the server is 022 so the script would be the one setting those permissions if it makes them with the bad permissions going forward. regards Michael

[ywarnier]

Hi Miked51,

Since you have spotted the reports on the forum, I guess you have also spotted the answers: there is a configuration parameter in the administration that lets you define the permissions for all new directories. For Blue Host, it should be set to 0755.

We are working on auto-detecting the required permissions during the installation process for version 1.9, to be published soon.

As you have a Blue Host account, maybe you could act as a beta-tester for us and let us know if Chamilo 1.9 (currently in alpha package) works for you?

[miked51]

We have spent a considerable amount of time (2days) trying to solve a problem with version 1.8.8.4.and we noticed that there has been mention of the same error on other forum posts going back 2 years. Chamilo installs oky but after making a course and trying to click on it generates the error,
This post will also be in developers suggestions just in case it's not read here.
The error message is as follows
"[Mon Apr 02 11:54:12 2012] [error] [client 74.220.197.216] SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "/home4/bluemon3/public_html/beaeducation/bea-distance-education/courses/THAI1/index.php" is writeable by group, referer: http://www.bea-education.org/bea-distan ... e_list.php"

The Bluehost server we use, uses suPHPgroup writable permissions will cause a 500 internal server error. The problem was corrected with the following command to remove write permissions from group and other:

chmod -R go-w ~/public_html/

This now loads the course. If the script in Chamilo makes new courses with group writable permissions, the script needs tweaking it so that new directories use 755 permissions and new files use 644. The umask on the server is 022 so the script would be the one setting those permissions if it makes them with the bad permissions going forward. regards Michael

[ywarnier]

Hi Miked51,

Since you have spotted the reports on the forum, I guess you have also spotted the answers: there is a configuration parameter in the administration that lets you define the permissions for all new directories. For Blue Host, it should be set to 0755.

We are working on auto-detecting the required permissions during the installation process for version 1.9, to be published soon.

As you have a Blue Host account, maybe you could act as a beta-tester for us and let us know if Chamilo 1.9 (currently in alpha package) works for you?