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How to set magento 2 sudo chown -R username:www-data

I'm using AWS EC2 ubuntu 22.04 to install magento2.4.6, but I'm confused about sudo chown -R user_name:www-data ., what should the user_name be, ubuntu or root. The default ssh user of ubuntu 22.04 is ...
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The directory "/.....public_html/generated/code/Magento" cannot be deleted Warning!rmdir(/.../public_html/generated/code/Magento): Directory not empty

Magento 2.4.2-p1 Smartwave Porto theme extensions from Amasty We have the Smartwave Porto theme. It came with Mageplaza Layered Navigation but an old version. Since we have some problems that I ...
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Failed to open stream: Permission denied on only one module

One of our extensions give the following error message on the front page: Warning: require_once(/var/www/html/magento2/app/code/xxxVendor/xxxModule/registration.php): failed to open stream: ...
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Permission for Magento user - Magento 2.4.2

May I know the permission for the Magento user to run the cmd SSH/putty. I had checked the Magento documentation but I can't understand for which file need to give 777 and which files need to change ...
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Magento or Apache 2 Permission?

I have a vm where I run ubuntu 18.04 , Apache 2 and Magento 2.3 every thing works fine but I think I'm doing something wrong with my permissions. So I have added to user 'dev' to the www-data group (...
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What does it mean to set file permission?

In layman's terms, what does it mean to set file permission when installing magento2? I understand it's something we need to do to make it work, but I was wondering what it is / why do we actually do ...
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There has been an error processing your request: "0":"Unable to serialize value. Error: Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded"

I am attempting to set up my local environment for Magento. When I try to view the front end, I get the following error on the page: There has been an error processing your request Exception printing ...
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Cache Clean setup is not working

After running the bin/magento cache:clean the setup gets 500 Error i saw the log means PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Zend_Cache_Exception: cache_dir "/var/www/html/var/page_cache" is not ...
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Cannot gather stats and Invalid template file after installing Porto theme

After setting up Magento 2 in developer mode, I am getting a couple of errors: [2021-04-19 21:39:09] report.INFO: Broken reference: the 'yotpo_bottomline' tries to reorder itself towards 'product.info....
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Catalog Category permissions keeps on changing automatically in Magento 2.4.1 Enterprise Edition

We are using Magento 2.4.1 Enterprise Edition. Suddenly our built-in catalog category permissions keeps on changing automatically (category permissions are set to "Deny"). which caused PLP ...
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"[ErrorException] chmod(): Operation not permitted" running "composer update"

I'm running Magento 2.4.2 and I'm using Composer v2.0.11. 2 days ago, after running, as usual, composer update, I suddenly received this error: [ErrorException] chmod(): Operation not permitted You ...
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Magento 2.4 - difficulties with permissions before install

I'm familiar with magento1 and decided to learn about magento2 so I've been trying to install it but am having some difficulties with permissions of folders and files. I've looked at lots of videos, ...
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Is the Magento 2 file system allowed to be owned by www-data? + Permissions question

I work at a company where I noticed that most of our Magento 2 file system is owned by www-data and in the www-data group on our Ubuntu server.Furthermore, the docroot directory /var/www/<...
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Is it safe to permission set 777 for var?

I saw 'Never use 777 for security reason' and I also found Magento 2 recommended permission setup on Magento 2 folder/file permissions find ./var -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \; find ./pub/media -type d ...
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.pdf opening 403 Forbidden issue in Magento 2.3

I have an issue in opening .pdf file Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the ...
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There has been an error processing your request kubernetes

I am trying to deploy Magento using Kubernetes and when I try to access the application I am getting following There has been an error processing your request Exception printing is disabled by default ...
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Site load without css after Migrating from one server to another

After migrating my magento site from one server to another, I encounter the following problem: the site loads, but without styles (css), it is as if it could not access the file. here are the ...
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Magento /pub/static is not writable - Permissions error

So I'm fairly new to Magento, in fact, it's my first time messing with Linux permissions. I've been asked to change a few things on a website, and I can't even pass through the permissions part. I ...
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folder system owner is getting changed in case of checkout of var/cache and var/session folder

I have set mage: mage user for my project it's working fine but whenever I am doing checkout then every time folder owner is getting changed to root: root for only var/cache/ & var/session/ folder....
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Magneto admin Url is not working . Need to clear cache always

I am using magneto 2.2.6 . The website is working fine until i installed new extension . When the time of installation i run the following command php bin/magento setup:upgrade php bin/magento ...
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what are the proper chmod settings for the Media folder?

Magento 1.9.x We were troubleshooting something and changed the permissions on the Media folder. What are the proper chmod permissions on Media, var and the log (in var) folder?
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I'm going crazy with the folder permissions! in magento 2

hello guys in my case when I want to run any command like 'bin/magento setup:upgrade && bin/magento cache:clean && bin/magento cache:flush ' or bin/magento setup:di:upgrade , it always ...
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No-route with all magento grid/listing

I am having problem when moving to new server use Ubuntu. All my controller when loading grid/listing using UI component goes to 404 with no-route: That is example: domain.com/wondergopher/admin/...
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Permission on OpenLiteSpeed Server localhost with Magento 2

I'm using CentOS 8 as my OS on my laptop and currently running OpenLiteServer (lsphp73) and have been successfully installed phpmyadmin and magento 2.3.4. Then, it comes with a problem that everytime ...
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Magento 2 specific folder permisson

I have the folder path /var/www/html/stagedesign/magento_root How do I set folder permisson 777 to only stagedesign? I have tried this in the stagedesign folder but nothing happened. find . -type ...
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How to prevent Magento 2 from changing file permissions?

We are working on local environments to do our developments and we don't want Magento 2 to change file permissions - actually, we think that Magento 2 should never change file permissions, it's not ...
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Magento 2:Your web server is set up incorrectly and allows unauthorized access to sensitive files. Please contact your hosting provider

I'm struggling trying to solve this very annoying problem on my Magento 2.3.3 store. Today I forced the SSL on the website (I did it that by enabling the https on the unsecure URL). After 10-15 mins, ...
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Getting permission issue for vendor mage folder while update anything on admin

I am using magento 2.3.2 community edition. While update any setting at backend I am getting error like Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/ihouzit/var/cache//mage-tags/mage---39a_MAGE): ...
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Which files under Magento webroot should be executable?

Security best practices suggest that you should never have an executable in a public web directory. However, in a typical Magento install (in my very limited experience), this is not true. Even in ...
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File exists but 404 for jquery-ui-1.9.3.2.js only one file

I upgraded magento 2.3.2 from 2.3.0. And getting this error in admin panel. GET https:///pub/static/adminhtml/Magento/backend/nl_NL/jquery/jquery-ui-1.9.2.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found). I ...
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New/Modified files won't inherit group ownership

This is happening for the first time after months of developing. I don't know what changed. We set file permissions and then We run in Magento2 root folder: sudo chown -R user:apache . But, every ...
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Permission denied error after given 0777 permission to var/ folder in Magento 2.3.1

I am using Magento 2.3.1 and I am getting that error on my Magento after given 0777 permission on my var folder i am using that command : -sudo chmod -R 0777 var/ Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: ...
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How to set permisions for var/cache folder?

I can't able to remove var/cache folder. I'm using local server and accessed through ssh. How can I remove the var/cache folder by setting permission? I have run chmod 755 -R var/* and getting the ...
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Writeable permissions error 777 | Magento 2

I am upgrading Magento 2, and all Readiness checks are passed after giving 777 permission to pub/meda, generated folder. But during upgrade process it stops throwing error of non-writeable folder for ...
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How to Get all Product Images From pub/media/catalog/product

I want to Get All Product Images From Catalog/Product Images Directory I am trying this but not getting Success use Magento\Framework\Filesystem\Io\File; use Magento\Store\Model\...
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Command line user does not have read and write permissions on generated directory. Magento ver 2.3 cloud environment

I am using Magento cloud. When I try to run setup:di:compile command in one of my development branch. I am getting Command line user does not have read and write permissions on generated ...
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while saving admin cms pages getting 404 not found only for files in magento 2

while saving admin cms pages getting 404 not found page in magento 2 already permission for pub/media 777 var 777 how i can solve this i'm using magento 2.1.11 Edit1: I created new cms page when i ...
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Forbid access to a file by url but allow through browser

how can I prevent the user to access my /v folder in my website where I have some video, but allow them to be display on frontend thanks to the <\video> tag from HTML 5 ? I tried this and other ...
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Magento 2 Installation Error In Docker - File Cannot Be Renamed

I'm using docker-compose to build a Magento 2.3.1 development environment (Docker for Windows with Linux containers enabled). The stack is based on PHP:7.2-apache with all Magento required ...
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Set the correct magento permissions

What are the correct Magento permissions and how can one set them correctly?
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Changing file permissions to 777 breaks website

I am trying to install a theme to a magento site, but running setup:upgrade after the files are transferred breaks all css and javascript. I read that the file permissions may be an issue, so after ...
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How to Increase file size of Importing Products to Magento 2 [duplicate]

I'm looking to import product into M2 but the allowed size is 2MB and my file has 2.33 MB how can I increase the size? Thanks in advance.
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Magento 2 installation in GoDaddy shared hosting

Just installed Magento in my GoDaddy shared hosting and getting this error: Can't create directory /home/xxx/public_html/xxx.com/ecommerce/generated/code/Magento/Catalog/Controller/Adminhtml/...
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Magento 2 + Permissions issue in Ubntu 16.04

Every time i run setup upgrade or static-content deploy command, I need to assign permissions to var, generated, pub/static etc in Ubuntu. Is there any permanent solution for that so every time we ...
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www.domain.com/pub/ shows the web page without css/javascript loaded

I can access my site correctly like www.domain.com ( with all the content loads correctly), but if I type in www.domain.com/pub/ it is still accessible ( without js & css loaded). How do I fix ...
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How to run external script outside of magento 2 root directory?

I have made a few external php scripts to update quantity and tracking numbers,etc Right now, i'm putting them in magento root and set the permission to 640. However, it's still accessible by the ...
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Magento 2 : Error 500 after installing

[Ubuntu 18.04 / Apache 2.4 / PHP 7.2.17 / Magento 2.3.1] After successful installing, magento show blank page. I found following error in apache error.log: [php7:error] [pid 29252] [client 127.0.0....
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Command line user does not have read and write permissions on generated directory. Please address this issue before using Magento command line

My Magento site is down and I see main.CRITICAL: Cannot write to the "/var/www/html/var/debug/db.log" file. Unable to write {"exception":"[object] (Magento\Framework\Exception\...
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Permission issue when installing with nginx

I have installed different Magento sites using nginx. I have 5 sites, 4 of them use php7.1 and there's one that uses php7.0. I have created two different sites-availaible: And both of them have ...
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Magento 2 how to set proper file and folder permission in localhost ubuntu 18?

i'm using magento 2 in local setup in ubuntu 18 when every time i run cmds php bin/magento s:s:d -f php bin/magento s:up php bin/magento s:d:c the file permission changed how to give proper ...
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