new website permission problem

[vistitude]

We received Plesk with our new dedicated server. I must say I have spent quite a bit of time testing and learning the software.

Every time I create a new website using Plesk, the permissions are wrong. If I were to run the reconfigurator for virtual host settings it would fix the problem. However, it would break the other site I installed as this site has community server 2007 running and I had to set permissions manually to get it to work. So I have a few questions:

1.) How do I get the permissions to work right away after creating the site? Is there a permissions inheriting issue I should be looking for closer to the root of the partition? It is very annoying have to manually change permissions on a domain that was just created!

2.) Why do I get the message: "Info: You are not allowed to change permissions on this folder." when I click on permissions in the web directories section?

3.) Am I going to break something if I set permissions by hand? Why does the reconfigurator remove permissions I have added rather than add permissions it needs? Is there a way around this?

I have more but this is a good start. Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to advise.

 

[clpereira]

I had a similar issue in that my my customer needed iuser_ftpuser to be able to write to the httpdocs folder. Here is swsofts reply and you won't like it.

Hello,
I can give full permissions for iusr_<ftp_user> for subfolders and files in httpdocs/ folder of domain using Plesk interface:
Plesk -> domains -> domain.tld -> Setup, mark "Additional write/modify permissions" checkbox.

For 'httpdocs' folder itselft permissions change for iusr_<ftp_user> can be performed only from Windows directly, not through Plesk.

Thanks,

 

[clpereira]

Warning!! Any permissions you set manually will not be backed up by plesk.

 

[vistitude]

Does this issue sounds like the problem where IIS is not in sync with the correct IUSER_<ftpuser> password that was set in Plesk? It makes sense that any directory security changes I make in Windows are unknown to Plesk however, I am not able to set the permissions in Plesk using the web interface. This sounds like a misconfiguration.

I found this in the KB:

"To synchronize IIS password use the following command"

"%plesk_bin%\websrvmng.exe" --update-anon-password --domain-name= Note: this feature is available starting with Plesk 7.5.4 and the latest hotfixes.

Doing this for every site after creation sounds unacceptable. It seems like Plesk would most likely set the permissions when the site is created but when I place files in the folder the correct permissions are not "inherited". How can I get Plesk to re-apply permissions to a single httpdocs folder without running the reconfigurator on the entire virtual host folder? Is there a command line operation for it?