Cannot delete images

By gray97 on 5 Jul 2006 at 13:03 UTC

I have a test installation and wanted to delete all the image files from /files/images but for some reason, cpanel or FTP won't delete them. FTP gives a 550 error.

Is there a way?

Thanks...gray97

Comments

you are not your websever

dman commented 5 July 2006 at 13:57

On nice systems, your user account would at least be in the same group as your webserver. Sound like you are not, and don't have access to files it created independant of you.

Ask it to give you access ;-)

get a drupal page (eg just a php code snippet) to run

`chmod -R a+w files/images`;

and you (and the rest of the world) should have write access. Modify the command as needed.

To avoid this problem on a new site - make the files and files/images directories yourself so the webserver doesn't have to. You'll retain ownership, but the server will have write access.

.dan.
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