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[EP-tech] Re: Upgrading to EPrints 3.3.12

Hi Malcolm,

As Francis mentioned, if you used the --with-user option when installing EPrints, Apache should be running as user 'eprints' (I think this should be reflected in perl_lib/EPrints/SystemSettings.pm).

You can check using the ps command what user is Apache effectively running as.

If it happens to be 'eprints', try creating a file as user eprints and see who owns it.

I hope this helps,

	Jose

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Malcolm Bodger
Sent: 16 October 2013 10:40
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Upgrading to EPrints 3.3.12

Hi Ranju,

Yes I had a similar problem and had to change the ownership. But, I've now changed the owner/group in the apache config /etc/apache2/envars  to eprints and restarted apache but I'm still getting the same error when I try to create an eprint. I don't want to have to reinstall.

Thanks.
Regards,
Malcolm.
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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of Ranju Upadhyay <Ranju.Upadhyay@nuim.ie>
Sent: 16 October 2013 09:40
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Upgrading to EPrints 3.3.12

Hi Malcom,

I did a fresh install of 3.3.12 on RHEL 6 and found that when httpd is owned by a different user I could not access the eprints interface at all. On changing the ownership(user and group) of httpd to eprints it worked!

Cheers
Ranju Upadhyay
National University of Ireland Maynooth.

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of franc@library.iisc.ernet.in
Sent: 16 October 2013 07:09
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Upgrading to EPrints 3.3.12

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me with this problem.
> I'm running on Ubuntu and have installed EPrints 3.3.12 as user eprints.
> I noticed that the ownership of some files is www-data and the apache 
> processes are owned by www-data, the default.
> I had some problems with permissions and had to change the ownership 
> of some files. I now find when I try to create a new eprint I get an 
> error "Can't retrieve item with the ID "13" It appears to create the 
> document with owner and group as www-data. If I change the owner to 
> 'eprints' I can see the record for "13"
> Has anyone else had this problem? Should I have installed as use www-data?
> Should I change my Apache to run as eprints?
>

The default ownership and group is eprints.eprints. If the default is being used then the ownership and group of the Apache should also be eprints.eprints.

On the other hand, if you had used the --with-user option while configuring the eprints software then the ownership and group of the Apache should be same as the one that you had used while configuring eprints software.

Hope this helps.

 - Francis

JRD Tata Library
IISc, Bangalore, India
> Thanks,
> Malcolm.
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