Skip to main content

friendica - Link to source

Correct CMOD settings for smarty3, subfolders and their users

Hi there @Friendica Support ,
this question is related to this help request:
frio theme - Service Unavailable
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

I had a look at the smarty CHMOD settings and found the following:

drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 8 20:23 smarty3
If I'm not wrong that's CMOD 775 (rwx|rwx|r-x) (?)

In the installation process the commands to create the smarty folders were:
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ mkdir -p view/smarty3
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ chmod 775 view/smarty3
see:
squeet.me/display/962c3e10-156…
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
--
I looked into the subfolders and found:

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 222 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 25 17:20 compiled => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
--
The folder "compiled" has a long list of sub-folders apparently each having 2 more steps of sub-folders.

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled# ls -l
total 880

I found two types of folders, some few created on different dates strangely belonging to the user root instead of www-data, here two examples and how those two types of subfolders look like.
I guess the folders owned by root are wrong?
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 00
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 d4 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 ec => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4/ec# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Nov 12 04:35 00d4eca105abd94437094f3d4409477acb55526a_2.string.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 01
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 97 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 f2 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97/f2# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 6140 Nov 22 20:25 0197f2d4b23957a898d38870d6c6a3775da487ff_2.file.group_side.tpl.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)

Tutorial

2023-11-22 21:24:15


frio theme - Service Unavailable


Hi there @Friendica Support
just changed on this profile to FRIO as VIER seems to basically not perform the basic functions.

When I try to go to the settings page I get a "Service Unavailable" page.

What should I do?

friendica 2023.05 - firefox



@Friendica Support
in reply to TupambAdminOrg [2026.01]

utopiArte
friendica - Link to source
utopiArte
• •

Just checked all the 13 of 220 folders that were created as belonging to user and group root and that I consider shouldn't exist as owned by root i the folder /smarty3.

In general terms speaking I couldn't find a common property.

They refer to posts or replies by three different users.

Most refer to one specific post.

Two create a page:
Not Found
The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted.
Request: XYZ

All were created with the theme VIER.

in reply to TupambAdminOrg [2026.01]

utopiArte
friendica - Link to source
utopiArte
• •

New error message (of FRIO) about a folder created by the user root.

I haven't found the extensive conversation about this problem with @Hypolite Petovan yet but I'm quite sure that I changed all folders to ownership of user www-data before 28th of November of the smarty folder. Actually there was another conversation about ownership of folders and I changed all folders to be owned by root except storage and view that day on 02:45hs, the new folder owned by root at /view/smarty3/compiled/ like stated below was created on 3:50hs.

As for what I remember of all the conversations this shouldn't have happened.


Service Unavailable
unable to create directory /var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c/ea/e6Exception thrown in /var/www/html/src/Core/Renderer.php:90
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/mod/photos.php(902): Friendica\Core\Renderer::replaceMacros()
#1 /var/www/html/src/LegacyModule.php(96): photos_content()
#2 /var/www/html/src/LegacyModule.php(73): Friendica\LegacyModule->runModuleFunction()
#3 /var/www/html/src/BaseModule.php(244): Friendica\LegacyModule->content()
#4 /var/www/html/src/App.php(703): Friendica\BaseModule->run()
#5 /var/www/html/index.php(52): Friendica\App->runFrontend()
#6 {main}

Console research resultrootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled# ls -l
..
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 6 00:40 7b
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 03:50 7c
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 28 02:45 7d
..
-----------------
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled# cd 7c
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 03:50 d2
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c# cd d2
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c/d2# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 03:50 69
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c/d2# cd 69
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/7c/d2/69# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 710 Nov 28 03:50 7cd2693513597460a71347ba02d3179c5e5ab822_2.string.php
nano 7cd2693513597460a71347ba02d3179c5e5ab822_2.string.php
<?php
/* Smarty version 4.3.1, created on 2023-11-28 03:50:02
  from '7cd2693513597460a71347ba02d3179c5e5ab822' */
/* @var Smarty_Internal_Template $_smarty_tpl */
if ($_smarty_tpl->_decodeProperties($_smarty_tpl, array (
  'version' => '4.3.1',
  'unifunc' => 'content_6565636a645732_50647552',
  'has_nocache_code' => false,
  'file_dependency' => 
  array (
  ),
  'includes' => 
  array (
  ),
),false)) {
function content_6565636a645732_50647552 (Smarty_Internal_Template $_smarty_tpl) {
?>[url=https://tupambae.org/profile/utopiarte]utopiArte[/url] replied to you on [url=https://tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-1065-6562-6405-8bb240314547]"bugreport - can't answer, like or reshare posts"[/url]<?p>
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 @Hypolite Petovan
in reply to utopiArte

Hypolite Petovan
friendica - Link to source
Hypolite Petovan
• •
@utopiArte @TupambAdmin [stable] Are you by any chance running your Friendica cron jobs as root? It should run as www-data. Same question if you're using the daemon.
@utopiArte
in reply to utopiArte

utopiArte
friendica - Link to source
utopiArte
• •

@Hypolite Petovan

So this is a "tricky" one for me as I have no idea what or how to do this.
In the helpers page:
tupambae.org/help/Install#cron…
it only states:

helpers page wrote:

cron job for worker
If you are using a Linux server, run "crontab -e" and add a line like the one shown, substituting for your unique paths and settings:

I did my installation with the help of @hankg's tutorial:
nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/0…

ubuntu install tutorial wrote:

First log into the server through SSH using your root@<domain> user. Then execute the crontab edit command:
sudo crontab -e


How do I set this so "It should run as www-data."
??

@Hypolite Petovan
in reply to utopiArte

Hypolite Petovan
friendica - Link to source
Hypolite Petovan
• •
@utopiArte Prepend the php command with su -u friendica and the command will be ran as www-data.
@utopiArte
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

utopiArte
friendica - Link to source
utopiArte
• •

Something like this?

# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/html; su -u friendica /usr/bin/php bin/worker.php

in reply to utopiArte

Hypolite Petovan
friendica - Link to source
Hypolite Petovan
• •
@utopiArte Looks good to me, you should run it once as root to make sure it doesn't fail horribly.
@utopiArte
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

utopiArte
friendica - Link to source
utopiArte
• •

As off now it was running like this:
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/html; /usr/bin/php bin/worker.php

Your suggestion:
php command with su -u friendica
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/html; su -u friendica /usr/bin/php bin/worker.php

What we didn't actually clarified is what friendica stands for.
Like to say, is it a "place holder", a variable for a user or application name?
Is "friendica" defined as such in worker.php?
Or would it actually be www-data?

in reply to utopiArte

Hypolite Petovan
friendica - Link to source
Hypolite Petovan
• •
@utopiArte Sorry, friendica is the name of my local node web server user. You should be writing www-data instead.
@utopiArte