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Valrock Music

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Built on Expression Engine, this site was an exercise in organization.

The New York City client called us just a month before a big CD release show looking for a way to start publicizing both the artists and selling the music on her new music label.  We took the many ideas she had and directions she was pursuing and created an organized and well-constructed site.

We are using PayPal to sell her CDs and digital downloads;  have a simple music player to preview the music and she’s able to edit it all through her ExpressionEngine Content Management System.  The site is scalable and flexible for growth.

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Tags: Valerie Romanoff, Valrock Music, Web Design, Web Development, webdesign
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Getting PHP and Plesk to play nice

Monday, February 1st, 2010

This first development post is related to an issue I encountered today in trying to get PHP files to write to the filesystem in a Plesk environment.

Problem: Recently we migrated a client’s website to a new server at Media Temple, which is set up with Plesk. In testing their new environment, they emailed that they were unable to upload something via an upload form on the website. Apparently, Plesk doesn’t allow a PHP file to write in its default settings. After doing some research I came up with the solution.

Solution: We need to first ensure that our owner and group of the httpdocs folder is set accordingly. The next step is to give the group write permissions. Then it gets fun, when we  add Apache to our psacln group.

• First we will ensure that our folder has the correct owner and group assigned to it (Quick note: [username] should be the username that you setup for the domain through Plesk):

chown -R [username]:psacln httpdocs/

• Next we want to give the psacln group write permissions:

chmod -R g+w httpdocs/

• Next we need to edit /etc/group & /etc/group-. Locate the following in the /etc/group & /etc/group- file:

psacln:x:2524:

• Change the previous line to the following:

psacln:x:2524:apache

After all this you will want to restart Apache and all will be well.

This wraps up the first Development Post. If you have any questions or comments regarding this solution please feel free to let us know !

Tags: PHP, Plesk, server administration, Web Development
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