DMS upgrade requires write access?

[hajobakker 4]

After upgrading to dMS 1.1, the following message appears in the Wordpress dashboard:

 

It appears your WordPress install can't write to your servers file system. This may adversely affect your sites performance. Check with your host about resolving this issue. To hide these notices, visit PageLines options panel.

 

What's this, all of a sudden DMS needs to write and does not state where and why? Strange!

[Rob 547]

As far as I know, DMS has always needed to write some files to the server, however, the only time I've seen permissions or ownership issues as you're experiencing is when WordPress was installed with an automated installer. 

 

When systems like Softaculous or other server-based installers are used, the ownership of key files and folders is retained by the server, rather than you as the administrator.  Can you tell us if you used some built-in system to install WordPress?  How did you install DMS?

[hajobakker 4]

As far as I know, DMS has always needed to write some files to the server, however, the only time I've seen permissions or ownership issues as you're experiencing is when WordPress was installed with an automated installer. 

 

When systems like Softaculous or other server-based installers are used, the ownership of key files and folders is retained by the server, rather than you as the administrator.  Can you tell us if you used some built-in system to install WordPress?  How did you install DMS?

 

Rob,

 

I've installed WP from the commandline, no installatron stuff here.

Having experienced too much funny stuff, I'll try with a fresh install

[Simon 248]

if you enable debug under advanced settings then visit the debug page, the actual error will be revealed.

[erin-wsk 10]

I'm receiving the same error on a multi-site set-up and wordpress was not installed through an automated installer. Ran the debug info and the only thing that shows an error: 

DMS Internal Warning
Less Subsystem
POSIX checks failed.

[Simon 248]

I'm receiving the same error on a multi-site set-up and wordpress was not installed through an automated installer. Ran the debug info and the only thing that shows an error: 

DMS Internal Warning
Less Subsystem
POSIX checks failed.

You can add this to functions.php of your child theme:

add_filter( 'render_css_posix_', '__return_true' );

 

​It wont guarantee a result but it does bypass that check.

[sheilahoff+ 64]

I'm seeing this same thing only after upgrading to WP 3.7. My installs are all backup buddy restores. So I'm not sure why I'm having this issue. Can we just ignore it or do we need to change the permissions on something or what?

 

PS: just noticed this is posted in the free area. I have a full paid version of DMS.

[thesingleparentperspective 1]

As far as I know, DMS has always needed to write some files to the server, however, the only time I've seen permissions or ownership issues as you're experiencing is when WordPress was installed with an automated installer. 

 

When systems like Softaculous or other server-based installers are used, the ownership of key files and folders is retained by the server, rather than you as the administrator.  Can you tell us if you used some built-in system to install WordPress?  How did you install DMS?

I use GoDaddy

Just did a fresh install of wordpress 3.7 through the GoDaddy control panel and installed the 1.1.1 version of dms through the wordpress theme installer and am getting the same message.

 

1.  Is this going to affect how my site works?

2.  If so, how can I fix it?

[ccage 1]

For me, it's:

DMS Internal Warning
Less Subsystem
Unable to set filesystem credentials

Tried various permissions of DMS theme folders containing .less files. No joy.

[Simon 248]

 

For me, it's:

DMS Internal Warning
Less Subsystem
Unable to set filesystem credentials

Tried various permissions of DMS theme folders containing .less files. No joy.

 

The folder it tries to write to is your uploads folder, typically wp-content/uploads/pagelines

Permissions however isn't your issue, wordpress does not have direct access to the filesystem. probably the process is running under a totally different username, difficult to say as you only pasted the very bottom of the file. Do you normally get asked for username/password when you update/install themes and plugins? 

[ccage 1]

The folder it tries to write to is your uploads folder, typically wp-content/uploads/pagelines

Permissions however isn't your issue, wordpress does not have direct access to the filesystem. probably the process is running under a totally different username, difficult to say as you only pasted the very bottom of the file. Do you normally get asked for username/password when you update/install themes and plugins? 

 

Nope, updates work without prompt. FTP method is defined in wp-config and functions. The folder that it's trying to write to in this case is [my site structure]/public_html/wp-content/uploads/pagelines (to write the LESS-processed CSS cache, hence the error). This folder (and the cached file) are owned by apache.

[Simon 248]

Well thats the problem, your using the FTP method. DMS tries to use direct...

 

OK can you edit a file to test something?

 

Open includes/less.legacy.php and look for a couple of instances of the following:

$creds = request_filesystem_credentials( ...... various args...

 

replace with this:

$creds = request_filesystem_credentials( site_url() );

[Simon 248]

ccage did the above make any difference?

[finde 1]

I also get this message. Installing via FTP. without result. provider says the problem is not wp. Problem is the page lines. what can I do. it is not good. thank you. jens

[hajobakker 4]

I've installed a number of different wordpress 3.7 sites over the last couple of weeks, each in a ssh session, using wget latest and unzip.

 

The error messages only show up in chrome, and from DMS 1.1 on. It does not in any way appear to hinder or break anything though.

[finde 1]

thanks for your answer. but is also not a solution. DMS operates yes only with chrome.

[James B 436]

finde hi there, yes the DMS editor is built to only work with the chrome browser.

[jordangross+ 1]

I'm receiving the same error on a fresh WP install/fresh DMS.  Here's the entire debug output:

 

DMS Debug Info

WordPress Version
3.8

WordPress Debug
Disabled

Multisite Enabled
No

Current Role
Administrator

Framework Path
/chroot/home/ap/xxxxxxx.com/html/wp-content/themes/dms

Framework URI
http://www.xxxxxxx.com/wp-content/themes/dms

Framework Version
1.1.4

PHP Version
5.3

Child theme
Yes
/chroot/home/ap/xxxxxxx.com/html/wp-content/themes/pagelines-academy-child-theme-master
http://www.xxxxxxx.com/wp-content/themes/pagelines-academy-child-theme-master

PHP memory
256

Mysql version
5.0.95-log

PHP type
Apache2handler

PHP User
Apache

OS
Linux

Licence OK
[email protected]

Installed Plugins
dms-plugin-pro/dms-plugin-pro.php
password-protect-wordpress/plugin.php

DMS Internal Warning
Less Subsystem
Unable to set filesystem credentials

 

According to another post, it looks like this error means DMS is writing CSS on the fly and slows down page loads.  is that true?

[Simon 248]

Looking at the info there, PHP is running as user 'apache', now unless your user is actually apache (guessing here it isnt) thats your problem.

[noomaking 5]

How does that make sense Simon_P.

 

Looking at the info there, PHP is running as user 'apache', now unless your user is actually apache (guessing here it isnt) thats your problem.

How does that make sense? My PHP runs user as _www. How is it that the DMS Less subsystem cannot write to a folder with CHMOD 777. This is a level of finesse that no other wordpress product requires. I provide my own hosting using Mavericks OSX. I have no clue what the host is supposed to do. Do you? If the function requires a specific server setup, shouldn't Pagelines DMS documentation be very explicit about the server requirements for this function to execute properly? There seems to be a gross assumption on server configurations. The requirements in the documentation seems to be be somewhat minimal. 

 

PageLines DMS has been designed to work with any modern server environment, the recommended minimum requirements are:

• PHP version 5.2.4 or greater (5.3 or greater recommended)
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Users of PHP version 5.2

First and forth most, we recommend contacting your web host provider and ask them to upgrade your PHP version. If this isn't possible for whatever reason, please make sure Magic Quotes is off and Posix is Enabled/Installed.

 

I meet these requirements. What else do you need to be successful?

 

Is this feature dependent upon Posix functions? Evidently, POSIX can be a sticky proposition in some circumstances. Just grasping at straws. How can this be so elusive?

 

 

[Simon 248]

you dont 'need' posix extensions, it recommended thats all.

 

noomaking you have not included the message from the debug page. If the error is the same as the post above, then thats what wordpress reports when it tries to write a css file.

[gautamsah 0]

I'm also getting same error on my wordpress dashboard. Any kind of suggestion would be higly appreciated .

 

Thanks,

 

Goutam

 

 

[Simon 248]

gautamsah Please start a new thread as this one is nearly 2 years old.