Fabien Schiettecatte

Allright,

I was always looking in the “WHM” section of Parallels (don’t even know what it is really called) but it is in de customer control panel.

For your future reference it is ;

customer control panel -> websites & domains -> <yourdomain.ext> -> PHP support run as <dropdown> – 1: Apache Module, 2: FastCGI Application, 3: CGI Application</dropdown>, PHP ‘safe_mode’ on <tickbox>off</tickbox>

It is running as an Apache Module and safe mode is off. The only other options are to run it as FastCGI or CGI.

In Parallels Plesk Panel 10.3.1 it says;

Under Components Management
php 5.3.3-7+squeeze3

I’m really not sure if this is what you mean.

Ok,

Uploads are not working anywhere (not on my ‘main site’ –which is basically a dummy– not on my ‘sub-sites’, but upgrades to plugins and wordpress are working (because I declare an FTP account in wp-config.php).

So I opened the etc/passwd file and it says this;

root:*:0:0:Root:/:/bin/false
awebhaus:x:10000:1005::/:/bin/bash

no nobody there.

Setting user to both root or awebhaus doesn’t help. I’m wondering if the WP installation is actually using awebhaus as a user, since if I assign wp-config a 600 (advice gained from http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions), everything stops working.

I must be very dumb not to know how and why a WP uses a user from the server to acces the files on the server, but I do not know. is it by declaring an FTP account in wp-config? No; because then wp-config would have to be 655, right?

Very confused. The main problem is I do not have sufficient basic knowlegde on how a server works, at the moment I am only familiar with the higher languages (php, js, …).

I am really at a loss. But I tried to do my own research.

If you have any other pointers to push me in the right direction, I would very much appreciate it.

Ipstenu,

I read through it all, and I changed the wp-config.php of my multisite-multidomain install to include;

define(‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, (0755 & ~ umask()));
define(‘FS_CHMOD_FILE’, (0644 & ~ umask()));

But I still get the error, which means I’m doing it wrong. Perhaps horribly wrong.

Owner is 10000 and group is 1005. I totally have no idea what that even means. And rights are set to flcdmpe(0755) for folders and adfrw(0755) for files (filezilla). I feel like back in the day where I didn’t understand DNS and googling didn’t really help at all.

If you don’t know to answer out of the top of your head (hat) then I’ll try to keep looking.

About the DB;

I actually, succesfully, migrated old single-install websites to my network by doing a str replace wp_ with wp_ID_ where ID was the ID of the website I assigned (or the network assigned) to it.

About the Media uploader;

Well the Media uploader is fun and nice & all that jazz, but it just doesn’t do it for me, if I need to upload .html for a mail backup (click here to watch this mail online) or do some other old fashioned stuff, I like to do it with ftp. Also I feel it is easyer to upload big video/audio files this way.

Perhaps it is my need to control the mapping and keep it tidy. When I use the GUI media uploader, it gets all chaotic. But that might also be my imagination.

Anyway, perhaps with this new 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 setup it might start to become easyer to just use the media uploader, except for .html files, that wouldn’t work.

Well,

Changing webhost is a tedious task, I would like to explore all of my current options. What steps should I take before I contact one.com with a more stern tone? To make sure the problem isn’t on my side?

Fresh WP install on all?

Funny thing is that I don’t even have traffic on these sites.

Argh.