[SOLVED] Help with subdomain multisite path

Hi,
I have sucesfully insatalled G2 on my site, and was trying the multisite on a subdomain.

I am getting this error :
Warning: is_dir(): Stat failed for /home/pedidos/public_html (errno=13 - Permiso denegado) in /var/www/html/g2/install/steps/MultisiteStep.class on line 68

I event tried uploading these files manually
main.php
index.php
embed.php
upgrade/index.php

but I get this error when I run upgrade/index.php
Warning: main(/home/pedidos/public_html/upgrade/UpgradeStep.class): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pedidos/public_html/upgrade/index.php on line 42

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/pedidos/public_html/upgrade/UpgradeStep.class' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in /home/pedidos/public_html/upgrade/index.php on line 42

All the above files have write permissions

I type this in the path
/home/pedidos/public_html
/home/pedidos/public_html/

I've checked through FTP that the directory/subdomain exists but I get this error
The directory you entered does not exist

Where am I going wrong

Thanks for your support
Roshlin

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Hi Valiant,

How could I do that????

I CAN access the paths by ftp, as I mentioned earlier I have also uploaded the files mentioned above.

I did he system info in G" and got this info
Gallery version = 2.0-beta-3+ core 0.9.27
PHP version = 4.3.10 cgi
Webserver = Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
Database = mysql 3.23.58
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Gd, Thumbnail, ImageMagick
Operating system = Linux newhost59.newhost59-server.com 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 4 11:48:29 EDT 2004 i686
Browser = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1

Hi nivekiam
this is the link to the http://www.pedidos.fotorima.com/phpinfo.php

multisite installation works like this:
You have a single "codebase" that is the directory where you have the gallery2 installation files which is several megabytes in size. You can install an unlimited number of G2 "multisite" installs with this single copy of the files.
So the primary advantage of using the multisite functionality of G2 instead of using normal installations is saving the disk space that is needed for each gallery2 folder.
The multisite installations don't share users or photos/items, they are completely separated and share only the same codebase.
Another advantage of multisite: You only have to update a single codebase. Once the codebase is replaced with a new G2 version, just visite the different multisites and each multisite will automatically start its upgrade process. So each multisite has to be upgraded independently, but you have to replace the underlying codebase only once.
The codebase can't be installed just anywhere. It needs to be installed in a directory that can be reached from the web. G2 has some static content, e.g. some icons etc. and this content is provided by the codebase install for all multisites.
But you don't have to run the installer for codebase itself, the codebase doesn't have to actually run a G2.
The codebase installation is just the central place to start a multisite installation. Each time you want to install a new multisite, you browse to the codebase install /install/ directory walk through the multisite install process steps.

So here are the instructions on how to run a multisite installation:

1. put your gallry2 code somewhere on the webserver, a place which is accessible from the web.
you chose:
/var/www/html/g2/ and it is accessible at: http://www.fotorima.com/g2/
that's correct and good.

2. for each multisite installation, you need another path that is accessible from a webbrowser
you chose:
/home/pedidos/public_html/ which can be accessed by http://www.pedidos.fotorima.com/ or http://www.fotorima.com/~pedidos/
that's good.

3. in the multisite step, enter /home/pedidos/public_html/ in the form field and before pressing ok, chmod /home/pedidos/public_html/ 777 (give the webserver write permission on the directory such that it can create the necessary dir structure.
it will create 4 files: index.php, embed.php, main.php, upgrade/index.php.
these 4 files are not the same files as the ones in your codebase install. they are much smaller and actually use your codebase install files in the background.
later on in the install process, a 5th file will be created in the multisite directory, the config.php file.

i don't know if you did this step correctly. make sure you do.

4. click ok in the multisite step. in the storage steup step, choose a new g2data directory for each multisite. each multisite needs its own storage directory.

WARNING: if you choose the same storage directory for multiple multisites, it will destroy the existing other installation.

5. in the database step, choose a new database (or a new table prefix) for each multisite install. each multisite install needs its own database tables.

WARNING: if you choose the same database + table prefix for multiple multisites, it will destroy the existing other installation.

6. finish all installation steps.

can you copy the phpinfo file to /var/www/html/g2/install/phpinfo.php ? thanks.

and please post the output of
ls -l /home/pedidos/public_html/

ls -l, in the command line / shell.

do you have only ftp access? i assumed you have command line access to the box.

i've checked the phpinfo, thanks. but there's nothing suspecious. just the fact that it's php cgi, maybe suExec is used.

why do i get a apache error (500) for http://www.pedidos.fotorima.com/phpinfo.php ? have you removed the file?

as i said, with a shell / command line.
ftp is the slowest method to do anything. as you have access to /var/www/html/g2/ and /home/pedidos, i assumed you have root access or shell (ssh) access to the box.

are you 100% sure that /home/pedidos/public_html/ has file permissions 777?

and have you tried the other method?
create the 4 files in /home/pedidos/public_html/ and chmod the 4 files 777.
do you get the same error?

and if you are not the admin, ask the admin why php is_dir returns a warning for you.

you'll have to take a look at the apache error log (not the access log) to see what the reason is for the 500 error.

just read the warning:
Warning: mkdir(/home/fotorima/g2data): Permission denied in blablabla

g2data has wrong permissions, give it 777 or something, recursively.
chmod -R 777 /home/fotorima/g2data

I'd bet your web host changed some things on you. You have major problems with permissions. Maybe g2data is 777 now, but it appears as though the user Apache runs as can't even get to g2data. What are the permissions on /home and /home/fotorima ?

It also appears as though the user Apache runs as can't write to or at least can't rename files in /tmp

Thanks Valiant and Nivekiam, :D

I have my multisite working. The problems was with the permissions on the folders that G2 had created, when I manually changed the permissions on the g2data/cache folders etc, it started working but when I made any changes it started with other errors for other subfolders (lock/0/1 etc...) which had been by G2 itself. Surprisingly the main G2 worked well with the same folder settings. So I decided to delete everythig, deleted the subdomain the folder , everything and started from scratch again, and everything went fine .

Thanks for you help 8)
Roshlin