[mattsilv]

I just installed Yii and while following this tutorial:
http://www.yiiframew...start.first-app

I got to the part about trying the Model Generator. After hitting generate it gave me the following error:
Generating code using template "/var/www/html/--/framework/gii/generators/model/templates/default"...
generating models/User.php
Unable to write the file '/var/www/html/--/testdrive/protected/models/User.php'.
done!

I assume it's a CHMOD issue, but I want to make sure I am following the proper protocol before CHMOD'ing random directories.

[Maurizio Domba]

Just check if your web user has a write permission to the protected/models directory for creating models... and to the protected/controllers and protected/views for creating CRUD...

A good idea is to remove those permissions when you finish to use Gii...

[mattsilv]

mdomba, on 24 November 2010 - 03:53 AM, said:

Just check if your web user has a write permission to the protected/models directory for creating models... and to the protected/controllers and protected/views for creating CRUD...

A good idea is to remove those permissions when you finish to use Gii...

Thank you. Can you let me know exactly which permission this should be? Is it 0666?

[kokomo]

mattsilv, on 24 November 2010 - 09:06 AM, said:

Thank you. Can you let me know exactly which permission this should be? Is it 0666?

No, 666 is read and write permission to everybody.
0644 or chmod u+w gives the user who belong to the file/dir (should be your web user) write permissions.

On the following page you can check the different numeric permissions and their meanings
http://ss64.com/bash/chmod.html

[p0pemar1naru]

Since the webserver needs permission to write to the Yii "protected" folder that is most probably owned by you (<user> see: ls -al). Why not do this instead of chmod:

Add your linux <user> to the webserver group.
On default LAMP, webserver group is "www-data". On Zend Server CE the webserver goup is "zend".
On terminal do this:

1) groups <user>
Will show you the groups you are in. Check for www-data || zend.

2)
sudo usermod -a -G www-data <user> (for standard Apache install)
||
sudo usermod -a -G zend <user> (for Zend Server CE)

so here you are assigning yourself (<user>) to the webserver group.

3) you are good to go. No more write problem.

[alirz23]

Hi

you can change to 775 for now when you done you can change back to default