[mythtv-users] MythWeb Thumbnail Errors

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Kichigai Mentat wrote:

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> Hello. The MythTV system is fully functional, but one thing I've
> noticed is that in MythWeb, I get errors like the following:
>
> Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, line  
> 305:
> copy(image_cache/1008_20060109230000_20060109233000.nuv.png): failed
> to open stream: Permission denied
>
> The data is stored on an EXT3 volume, and still has a good amount of
> free space. Recordings are fine, and I can download the NUV files
> through the browser. Not too sure what's causing this, but I've also
> gone and changed the mode of one of the files to 776, on a hunch.
> This didn't change the error.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, but this is hardly a critical problem.
> Thanks.

Just a hunch, but check the permissions on the parent directories.  
Whatever user PHP is running as (apache user) will need read and (I  
believe) execute permissions on ancestor directories leading to the  
file on which it's trying to perform a copy.