Warning Message on Site Update

[marknc]

Recently, when I update the site with minor changes I get the following message just before the upload begins:-

"Warning: Some files on the website appear to have changed since Actinic Ecommerce last uploaded them. These files will be completely refreshed. The changed files are: oldtext.fil, oldprice.fil, oldprod.fil."

They are always the same file type and always "old...", the site then proceeds to completely refresh. Although this doesn't pose a big problem, it is time consuming with rather a large site, and a little irritating.

Can anyone shed some light on what might be happening?

Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Might be an idea to ftp to your site and check if the .fil have a permission of 777. If they don't, then please set their permission to 777. This should get rid of your warning message

Kind Regards

[marknc]

Warning messages

Hi Nadeem,
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
Mark

[marknc]

Site Updates

I have FTP'd to my site and attempted to change the permissions for the .fil files but I get "operation not permitted". I'm not sure why as I can change permissions on everything else. I also don't understand why these files are being changes outside of Actinic. I'm mystified??? Don't know what to do!
Mark

[I-CC]

Are the files owned by your username can you see when you login via FTP, i.e. if your username for ftp access was jobbloggs, is that what is shown next to them, or is it something else like apache or something like that maybe?

[marknc]

Using LeapFTP I cannot see any username next to the files. The file properties show Owner: 99 Group: 99 with a permission setting of 600 next to the offending .fil files. Most of the other files have a permission setting 644 and show Owner: 102 Group:30. In fact the acatalog directory shows Owner: 102. Could this be the problem and if so, how can I fix it?
Mark

[I-CC]

Get your host to chown the files to your username so that the UIDs all match up and also ensure that the chgrp is conducted so that this matches up with your files... This is assuming ofcourse though that they are using some sort of susexec method on your filespace and files, but once that is done then you should be able to amend the file permissions all yourself.

[marknc]

I have managed to chown some of the offending .fil files and have changed the file permissions to 777. Is this setting not a security risk? Does it not enable these files to be changed by anyone who may access the server? Should I change all the .fil files to 777?
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Is this setting not a security risk? Does it not enable these files to be changed by anyone who may access the server?

Do be honest, someone can have access to your server, if they have your ftp username and password. If they don't have this, then they cannot change the content of the .fil

Should I change all the .fil files to 777?

Yes

Kind Regards

[marknc]

Warning messages

Many thanks to you all for your help in this matter.
Mark

[marknc]

Warning messages

Hi again guys,
Problem not quite solved I've discovered. I carried out an update, after which I FTP'd to the acatalog directory and checked the files I had changed. They had reverted not only to the original file permissions of 600 but had also reverted to the original ownership of 99? I attempted to change them again but got "Operation not permitted" again, which means going back to the server and chowning them again.
What's a guy to do? Any clues?
Mark

[cdicken]

When Perl carries out an operation (e.g. creating a file during a merge) it seems to change the ownership of that file, so that it cannot be done a second time.

Check the ownership of the actual *.pl and *.pm files in the 'cgi-bin'. If they are chowned to '99' try changing them to something else. That might stop them messing up the *.fil files.

[marknc]

Warning messages

All the Perl files are the correct ownership. What I don't understand is why the ownership of the .fil files are different in the first place. On another small actinic site I created the .fil files have the same ownership as the rest of the catalogue. I'm a bit stumped with this one???
Mark

[Nadeem]

Hi Mark

It could be possible that it similar to this kb article. Please click here to read it

Kind Regards

[marknc]

Warning messages

Thanks Nadeem, I'll look into it.
Mark