Media version hashes dont match / media dir does not regenerate files

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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I just changed my dev environment from Windows + XAMPP to a local installment on Ubuntu/Apache. Already checked modules on Apache and PHP…everything fine. Permissions are also OK everywhere and I already confirmed that .htaccess is working.
The links and pages in general are working fine. Its only the links to the media-folder which are broken. The version hashes that are being generated don’t match the ones of the already created files in the media directory which is true for a brand new starterkit-installation also. There are also no new media assets being generated even when I empty or delete the whole folder. crying

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@maltepodolski Please don’t cross post!

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I’d say no media assets being generated sounds like either thumb driver (default is GD) not present/working, or apache not really having write permissions there

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Well, GD is all on “enabled” and I have set permissions to my whole html folder recursively to me as user with read-write-execute for both files and directories?!

Can there be something in the way configuration-wise (apache2.conf / php?)

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You sound like you understand what you are doing, but I am so often overlooking the basics and making the same mistakes, that I will risk to insist on asking: how is apache getting write access exactly ?

In my system (linux mint) apache is part of www-data group. To give it permission I first give recursive group ownership to www-data, then give it write permission as such:

chgrp -R www-data thefolder/
chmod -R g+rwX thefolder/

…not a very secure thing to do, but usually solves any permission problems I may be having.

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Also, have you tried uploading files, creating pages or updating them through the panel on this installation?

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In order to elaborate further if it is an permission issue, can you tell us

  • the exact permissions and ownerships of the media folder?
  • under which user/group apache is running?
  • whether the apache user is part of your users primary group?
  • whether your user is part of the apache users primary group?
  • the umask which is valid for your user and the apache user?

Cheers!

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I think you’ve set me on the right track there. I was not aware of apache being its own user and having its own group. By now all files and directories are owned by me and my group so I have to change that. Apache is indeed using ww-apache. Will try that…

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@Adspectus has reccomended to me previously a different approach to permissions, here.

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Case closed: it were the write permissions for the apache-user.

  1. Added myself to the www-data group
  2. Gave that group rwx + s for files created in the future
  3. Changed ownership of mediafolder to me as user and www-data as group (recursively)
  4. Deleted media folder to make kirby create it anew.

THX