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When I attempted to update a Simple Machines Forum (SMF) site from version 2.0.8 to 2.0.9 by choosing SMF 2.0.8 to SMF 2.0.9 upgrade, for the "Package to Upload" under Upload a Package on the Package Manager page for the forum, whch is reachable from the Admin menu, I saw the error message below:
The system on which the forum resided was running the Linux operating system with Apache HTTP Server software as the web server software. I suspected the issue was a problem with file permissions. I checked the ownership and permissions on the Packages directory beneath the directory where the forum software was stored for the user's forum and checked the permissions on other patch files under that directory. I saw the following:
$ ls -ld Packages drwxrwxr-x. 3 ann ann 4096 Jul 31 2014 Packages [ann@localhost ourniche]$ ls -l Packages/smf_patch* -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 4251 Jul 27 2014 Packages/smf_patch_1.1.19_2.0.6.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 1535 Jan 4 2012 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.1.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 2371 Jan 4 2012 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 2931 Oct 3 2013 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.3.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 2890 Oct 3 2013 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.4.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 1340 Oct 3 2013 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.5.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 9372 Jul 27 2014 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.7.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw-. 1 ann ann 6709 Jul 27 2014 Packages/smf_patch_2.0.8.zip $
The directory and the other patch files were owned by the user's account,
ann. But the forum software was running under the apache account, as I could
see by puttting a whoami.php file
in a directory for the site. I.e., a .php file containing
<?php system("id -a"); ?>. When I viewed whoami.php
, I saw the following:
While logged into the root account on the server, I checkd to see if
there were any files owned by apache underneath the user's forum directory
with the command find /home/ann/public_html/forum -group apache
where /home/ann/public_html/forum was the location for the
SMF forum's files. The files that were listed with a group of apache
were those in the cache directory. I then checked the
permissions on the cache directory and saw that the owner had read, write,
and execute permissions while the group was listed as apache;
the group also had read, write, and execute permissions.
# ls -ld /home/ann/public_html/forum/cache drwxrwxr-x. 2 ann apache 12288 Feb 14 17:43 /home/ann/public_html/forum/cache
To resolve the problem with the upgrade, I changed the group on
all files and directories within the user's forum directory to apache with
chgrp --recursive apache /home/ann/public_html/forum/*.
[root@localhost forum]# chgrp --recursive apache /home/ann/public_html/forum/* [root@localhost forum]#
When I afterwards attempted to upload the patch file again the upload succeeded.
The package has been uploaded successfully
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I clicked on "Install Mod"; all of the installation tests had a description of "Test successful", so I clicked on "Proceed" and then "Install Now". I then saw "The package was installed successfully. You should now be able to use whatever functionality it adds or changes; or not be able to use functionality it removes." However, the version of the forum software was still showing as "SMF 2.0.8" at the bottom of pages in the forum. While logged in as a forum administrator, I selected "Admin" then "Package Manager". I then saw the following:
A few security vulnerabilities and bugs in SMF 2.0.8 have been fixed. You can install this patch (click here to install) to fix your forum and update it to 2.0.9.
If you have any problems applying it, you can use the version posted on the downloads page - although, any modifications you have installed will need to be uninstalled. Please post on the forum if you need more help.
I clickd on the link to install the patch and then saw the "Package downloaded successfully" message with "The package has been uploaded successfully" again. I clicked on "Install Mod" and then at the next screen, "Install Now". Afterwards I saw "SMF 2.0.9" displayed at the bottom of forum pages. And when I clicked on "Admin" and selected "Package Manager", I saw the following for "Latest Packages":
A few bugs in SMF 2.0.9 have been fixed. You can install this patch (click here to install) to fix your forum and update it to 2.0.10.
If you have any problems applying it, you can use the version posted on the downloads page - although, any modifications you have installed will need to be uninstalled. Please post on the forum if you need more help.
I clicked on the link provided to install the patch to update the forum to 2.0.10. The update was successful and I saw "The package was installed successfully. You should now be able to use whatever functionality it adds or changes; or not be able to use functionality it removes." I was then able to go through the same procedure to update the forum to the latest version 2.0.11 as I had followed to update it to 2.0.10.
Created: Sunday February 15, 2016