Hi

I transferred several sites for clients using root access. Now I find the client cannot upload or delete files via FTP. I can from my location. :confused: HOW TO !! chown
ensim chown admin:admin blablabla folder but i cannot use this with plesk

Doesnt Matter

I already found

you can also recursively chown sub-directories


chown -R user:group DIRNAME

# chmod -R tune : psacln httpdocs
# chmod: invalid mode string: `tune : psacln'

[no space between username & group]

i'm getting mad with problems eith Plesk and ProftpD

That isn't a Plesk issue. You are attempting to use chmod instead of chown.

In *nix operating systems chmod = change mode and changes the permissions level (i.e. 777, 755, etc.)

chown = change owner and changes the file ownership (i.e. user:group)

hth

opsSS, sorry ... i'm behind the pc since 10hours

i have made the chown but FTP doesn't work fine with the domain:

i have done chown user : psaserv [without space] to httpdocs but when i use FTP for the user, doesnt work (doesn't find correctly the directory)

drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 ..
drwxr-x--- 5 tune psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 anon_ftp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 bin
drwxr-x--- 2 tune psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 cgi-bin
drwxr-x--- 2 root psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 error_docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 etc
drwxr-xr-x 13 tune psaserv 4096 Nov 28 19:24 httpdocs
drwxr-x--- 4 tune psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 httpsdocs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 lib
drwxr-x--- 2 root psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 pd
drwx------ 2 tune root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 private
dr-xr-x--- 7 root psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 statistics
drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 4096 Dec 5 12:18 subdomains
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 12:18 tmp


my problems is to restore some web for my domain: i have domain.tar.gz, when uncompress it, it create a subfolders "html" so i have to delete httpdocs and make "mv html httpdocs", then i do "chown -R user : psaserv httpdocs" (httpsdocs is user : psaserv, so i make same thinbg on httpdocs).

some ideas on how restore my backuped sites on new httpdocs ?

thank you

solved

just use file manager from Plesk and reset user permissions, then restart psa and xinetd to make ProftpD works correctly

You need to be more exacting in what you're trying to do pedrodj. Command Line is very powerful but also very unforgiving.

You said:



That would only chown the httpdocs directory, not all of the files. Use the -R recursive command if you want all of the files to change ownership.

This is not a plesk issue btw.