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Answered Upgrading to PHP7

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    Andy Jones Reply #1, 6 years, 10 months ago
    HI there,
    I have just upgraded my server from PHP 5.6.6 to PHP 7.
    Modx is the latest version (2.5.7) All works fine - but permissions seem a bit strange.
    It said in the dashboard that it couldn't write to the core/cache folder, and the only way I could clear this was to changepermissions to 777.
    Same goes for the assets folder - I can no longer edit external css or JS files, unless i change permissions to 777.

    Is this normal?

    Thanks
    Andy

    This question has been answered by multiple community members. See the first response.

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      LK Reply #2, 6 years, 10 months ago
      I upgraded my server to PHP7 last month but didn't encounter these issues with any of the MODX site.
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        Andy Jones Reply #3, 6 years, 10 months ago
        Quote from: lkfranklin at Jun 01, 2017, 10:12 AM
        I upgraded my server to PHP7 last month but didn't encounter these issues with any of the MODX site.

        Thanks - It's strange - I couldn't even clear the cache without errors - I had to change the cache directory to 777 which is a bit worrying.
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          LK Reply #4, 6 years, 10 months ago
          Sounds like the root user might have taken ownership/permissions of everything when updating
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            Andy Jones Reply #5, 6 years, 10 months ago
            Quote from: lkfranklin at Jun 01, 2017, 10:20 AM
            Sounds like the root user might have taken ownership/permissions of everything when updating

            Hmm - sounds plausible. Any ideas how to rectify this? The file Manager in cPanel doesn't give information of the owner of each directory/file.

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              LK Reply #6, 6 years, 10 months ago
              Not sure if that can be done in cPanel but if you have console access then try:

              namei -mo /pathtomodxsite/

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                Andy Jones Reply #7, 6 years, 10 months ago
                Quote from: lkfranklin at Jun 01, 2017, 10:26 AM
                Not sure if that can be done in cPanel but if you have console access then try:

                namei -mo /pathtomodxsite/


                Thanks - but I think I only have cPanel access - I've never used console anyway - I wouldn't know where to start!
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                  Andy Jones Reply #8, 6 years, 10 months ago
                  The strange thing is that the error says:

                  MODX cannot write to the cache directory. MODX will still function as expected, but no caching will take place. To solve this, make the /_cache/ directory writable.


                  But I don't have a directory called _cache

                  The closest I have is core/cache - and if i change this to 777, then the error goes away.

                  Any ideas?
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                    LK Reply #9, 6 years, 10 months ago
                    That'll be one in the same, core/cache is the folder that MODX uses.
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                      Andy Jones Reply #10, 6 years, 10 months ago
                      Quote from: lkfranklin at Jun 01, 2017, 12:32 PM
                      That'll be one in the same, core/cache is the folder that MODX uses.

                      OK thanks - why do they call it _cache then- very strange!