Dear Site5: WTF is up with your file permissions behavior?!
06.13.2009
I know yall do QA, however, you aren't testing for power users apparently. Check this out. I like to build and deploy drupal websites. Drupal websites require constant code updates, as well as test servers, so I like to use shell to move files around. However, it seems, whenever I move files around, every single files and directory gets assigned permissions 664, or 644 -- i forgot. The fix is running this command in the unix shell:
chmod -R ugo=rX,u+w ~
I have no idea WTF it does, but if you are having problems with site5, drupal, and 500 errors, go to your public_html folder and enter it, wait nervously while it takes its it time, and rejoice when it solved.
As for site5 -- I don't know what kind of voodoo is going on in your shell accounts, but you just stumped someone who's regularly payed large amounts of money to solve the weirdest problems out there. Apparently, your default shell behavior stumped me... I can't imagine how badly it stumped it others. Please stop it!
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That chmod command has
That chmod command has potential problems. Generally speaking it will make every...
directory/exectuable: rwxr-xr-x
every file: rw-r--r--
If you have any private information that you do not want your webserver to serve up, then it may be publicly available now. A simple example would be if you've removed read permission from your CHANGELOG.txt file so that others can't detect what version of Drupal you're running. This also makes the settings.php file writable by your shell account (but probably not the webserver so compromise would be more difficult), but you get my point?
Depending on implementation, this can have serious side-effects that may put your site at risk.
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