Forums: Dropbox permissions error message

  1. ssemone : Member | 8 months ago

    I am getting this error message when trying to upload one or more files from the dropbox in /var/data/omeka/plugins/Dropbox/files

    I see all the files (in this case just one) from the Dropbox plugin interface but when I try to run the add I get the following message:

    "Please make the following dropbox file readable and writeable: /var/data/omeka/plugins/Dropbox/files/P5064119.jpg"

    I have gone so far as to give 777 to the directory, but get the same message.

    I see in the documentation here:
    http://omeka.org/codex/Dropbox_plugin

    That I should: "Make 'files' folder located in the Dropbox plugin writable."

    and

    "1. After following the instructions and properly making the /files/ folder writeable, FTP files to that folder."

    I can't, however, find the specific permissions the system wants. In other words what is "properly writeable" defined as?

    Best,

    Sean

  2. ssemone : Member | 8 months ago

    This works, but seems a bit too open. ;)

    sudo chmod -R 777 /var/data/omeka/plugins/Dropbox/files/

  3. SheilaBrennan : Omeka Outreach Team | 8 months ago

    Try chmod 775 files/*
    for the /Dropbox plugin.

    The asterisk should make all of the files writable in the Dropbox.

    Sheila

  4. ssemone : Member | 8 months ago

    Hi Sheila, So I think the issue is that I am uploading as one user and opeka is running a another user and it is the opeka user that should have the permissions. I guess it isn't that big of a deal, though, since if I am batching uploads I can just adjust permissions each time. It is strange, though.

  5. ssemone : Member | 8 months ago

    And why I have "opeka" stuck in my head instead of "omeka" I don't know. :)

  6. JeremyBoggs : Omeka Dev Team Manager | 8 months ago

    ssemone: The Dropbox/files directory should be recursively writable by the server (777, not 775). You can use this command to do that, assuming you change directory into the Dropbox directory:

    chmod -r 777 files

    This will ensure that you don't have to change permissions each time you upload files to the 'files' directory.

  7. mdmattin : Member | 6 months ago

    I just installed Dropbox have been having two problems: Setting the permissions and allowing the filetypes. When I upload a new file and try to import it, I get the message that I have to set permissions. I do this, using chmod -R 777 files (it didn't like the lowercase r but accepted the R). This works, but only until I upload a new file, which seems to reset it, because I get the error again.
    Setting the permissions gets me past the first hurdle, but then it balks at file type, for jpg and tif. I did the addition of jpg and png to the allowed files list as per the instructions, but it didn't fix it. If I turn the filtering off it works, but I suppose it is a bad idea to leave it that way. Pdf files work OK, have not tried others so far.
    Thanks,
    Matthew

  8. wanderingwill : Omeka Dev Team | 6 months ago

    Hi Matthew,

    In the security settings, you need to make sure that both the file extensions and the file mime-types are specified correctly. Can you post the specific error message you are getting when you try to upload jpg files?

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