[mythtv-users] Mythweb: symlink(): Permission denied

[Tim Tait]

Jon Whitear wrote:

>I'm getting this warning when I view the 'recorded programs' page in
>MythWeb:-
>
>Warning at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/recorded_programs.php, line 103:
>symlink(): Permission denied
>
>Here's the PHP line it refers to:-
>
>// Try to create a symlink to video_dir if it doesn't exist
>    if (!file_exists(video_dir) && $All_Shows[0] && $All_Shows[0]->filename)
>        symlink(dirname($All_Shows[0]->filename), video_dir);
>
>Google (and common sense) told me that the error is occurring because this
>line is attempting to create a symlink in a directory where it doesn't
>have permission. However, not being a coder, I'm unsure which directory
>we're talking about. I've tried making my 'video' directory (i.e. that
>where myth keeps the .nuv files) writeable by the apache user, but that
>didn't help.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jon
>_______________________________________________
>
The symlink "video_dir" needs to be created under the www directory 
(/var/www/mythweb on my debian box) , which should be owned by the 
apache  web server account...

Tim