temp directory permissions wrong after every upgrade

  • Resolved Jason Judge

    (@judgej)


    10 years ago

    This plugin breaks a golden rule of WorkPress – it writes temporary files to a temp folder within the plugin file structure.

    Every time a plugin is upgraded, it gets deleted *completely* then replaced with the new version. If running mod_php, as many sites do, the plugin files will be owned by the FTP user, while the website runs as an apache user. That apache user will not have permissions to write to the plugin area without manually going in and changing the temp directory permission.

    At the *very least* the plugin needs to detect the permissions of this directory and report to the admin that they need to change permissions. Ideally, it should use a directory outside of the plugins area.

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  • Plugin Contributor Ewout

    (@pomegranate)

    Hello Jason,
    In the Status tab of the plugin, you’ll find information about the write permissions on various temp folders that the plugin uses. You probably have the ‘old tmp folder’ setting still active, which indeed uses a temp folder within the plugin structure.
    On fresh installs, the plugin defaults to the WP uploads folder.
    This feature/fix was introduced last year, but backwards compatibility was added so that users that had the old configuration running already could just update without having to change anything (while still having the option to do so!). You can easily switch this off and everything should be fine.

    Hope that helps and sorry for the inconvenience!

    Ewout

    Thread Starter Jason Judge

    (@judgej)

    Ah, cool, had no idea about this. I’ll pass this information on to the team working with this, because I don’t think they have spotted that option either.

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