Howdy,

I'm not entirely sure if I have the correct forum. If there is a better place to post this issue, please let me know. That said, I've recently started running a local dev server with Ubuntu 8.04, and this is my first Drupal install on said server. The issue I'm having pertains to non-core modules/themes. After I've unpacked them in their respective folders (/var/www/sites/all/modules and /var/www/sites/all/themes) I get "Permission Denied" errors. I can resolve these issues by recursively resetting permissions via chmod -R 755 on the new folders (as this mirrors the permissions set in /var/www/modules folder); however, I've never had this issue before and therefore assume it's either something to do with my server or the Drupal install. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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himerus commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This actually isn't the appropriate place for this, but it's funny as I've been having a similar issue.
It should really be posted on the main level as a forum post, or from what I know of the issue a ubuntu forum, or possibly xampp as well.

I recently switch my main dev laptop to Ubuntu 9, and so far love having it on here. I set up LAMPP to locally have full Drupal installations to develop on and test with. It all works great.... except when I try to unpack a module to the proper /sites/all/modules/ directory... same goes with themes as well...

However, for me, I'm used to handling this from the command line usually anyway from my normal host with SSH access. Funny thing is.... the same tar.gz file that tells me I can't unpack to the specified location still works when I use the command line (same user without sudo command) I can wget the tar.gz, and tar -xzvf the file in the appropriate location...

For me it's more of a inconvenience that I'm not entirely worried about, but from what I can see, this is either an issue with Ubuntu or the hosting setup on the local machine...