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Files tab only shoes folders (or nothing at all)

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    dowhatnow Reply #1, 15 years, 7 months ago
    Hello, I am moving to a new server environment and I am unable to see any of the files in the "Files" tab. I can see the root "Files" folder, but when I click to expand I get nothing.

    If I modify my filemanager_path to "/assets/" I am able to see a listing of my folders within the assets directory. But, If I click to expand my "images" (/assets/images/) folder, It is empty. I am able to upload to any directory without any problems, so I know the system is recognizing the path(s).

    I have set the permissions on the /assets folder to 777. Is there another place I need to update permissions?

    Thank you for your time!
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      Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 15 years, 7 months ago
      Your subfolders will also need to be read/writeable by the PHP process.

      You sure there’s something in the assets/images folder? tongue
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        dowhatnow Reply #3, 15 years, 7 months ago
        Yeah I’m positive. There is a little arrow icon next to each folder so it even sees that there is something in there.
        A new twist, I realized (silly me) that while upgrading to v2.08 I only ran the setup files. I failed to copy over any of the new files.

        Everything works great locally. Not a single problem. So, I’m guessing that maybe the fact I didn’t update the core files along with the updated setup has something to do with it. (I hope) smiley
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          Mark Hamstra Reply #4, 15 years, 7 months ago
          What have you set in the rb_base_dir/path, and filemanager_url settings?
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            dowhatnow Reply #5, 15 years, 7 months ago
            I apologize, I should have given more server info
            Server: CentOS Linux 5.5
            PHP Version 5.3.5

            rb_base_dir path is empty, as is the filemanager_url
            I have always left these blank in the past. I will populate these to see if anything shows up.
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              dowhatnow Reply #6, 15 years, 7 months ago
              No luck. If I update the filemanager_path to "/assets/" It will display the folders within /assets/ but not individual files.
              If I terminal into my server and use chmod: chmod -R 777 assets/

              - still no luck. I have never run into this before. embarrassed
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                Mark Hamstra Reply #7, 15 years, 7 months ago
                IIRC one of the filemanager_* settings needs to be the physical path (eg /user/domains/domain.com/public_html/assets/). Think it was the url one.
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                  dowhatnow Reply #8, 15 years, 7 months ago
                  Mark, thank you for your time and help. I tried different combinations and still no luck. Very interesting all the way around. smiley