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On my production server, each time I try to change or upload a user photo I get the "an unknown error occurred" message. If I check the logs, the error says it couldn't delete the folder of the userphotos because it is not writable.

Now I checked the settings and everything is set to 755, the same as the assets folder where I have no problems uploading. The only way I got the userphotos to work is to set the permission on the folder to 777, but that's not the best solution security-wise.

So why isn't the userphotos folder writeable but the assets folder is?

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  • What user:group owns the userphotos folder and what user:group is your web server running as? – Brad Bell Sep 29 '16 at 17:05
  • userphotos folder owned by clientname:clientname and webserver as 'www-data:www-data – Jan Van Echelpoel Oct 12 '16 at 9:50
  • chown -R www-data:www-data userphotos? – Brad Bell Oct 12 '16 at 18:25
  • Yeah that did the trick. Thanks for helping out. :-) – Jan Van Echelpoel Oct 13 '16 at 11:32
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Changing the userphotos folder's owner to be the same as the user:group Apache was running as solved the issue. i.e.

chown -R www-data:www-data userphotos
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