Okay.... I'm at my wits end here. I believe I updated this module from 2.15 to 2.16 back in November when the site gave me notice of it. Like a bonehead I didn't watch closely to see what was going on, not realizing what a major update this was. So now.... the product manuals and data sheets I was controlling via WebFM do not play right at all. if I got to the module settings page/node and make changes the changes don't take. I'm logged in as User 1..... I consistently see the error message of "Role Root Directory not set for Authenticated User role".

I've tried to set this.... but when I come back to the page the settings I entered are not there any long and I'm back to where I started. I'm thinking I need to try and take the module back to 2.15 but I don't know how many fields changed when I originally applied this update. I never remember having to tweak anything on .htaccess or settings.php to get this module to work correctly.... so as I said in the beginning... I'm just at a total loss here as to where to go to try and fix this issue. I'm running a 6.22 site..... Thanks for any help that can be offered.

Jeffrey

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I should also add.... I'm seeing this set of errors pop up when I do try to make changes in the settings....

Role root directory not set for authenticated user role
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2097152 MB.
Depending on your sever environment, these settings may be changed in the system-wide php.ini file, a php.ini file in your Drupal root directory, in your Drupal site's settings.php file, or in the .htaccess file in your Drupal root directory.
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2097152 MB.
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2097152 MB.
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2097152 MB.
Your PHP settings limit the maximum file size per upload to 2097152 MB.

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Okay... on the permissions page I check "Admin webFM" for Authenticated users and now they can download files again. This setting makes me very very nervous for obvious reasons. I unchecked "WebFM upload".... these are two settings i had checked for a secondary admin role on the site for use by our engineers.

Okay... I just shut this off.... checking this allows any authenticated user to have access to the settings page on this module. WAY BAD.

But how in the heck to I restore the ability for authenticated users to freaking download PDF data sheets and modules again? UGH.

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Je n'parle pas français

At least that's about as much as I remember.

Or via the help of a translator:

Je parle le français environ aussi bien que le poulet moyen.
(I speak french about as well as a chicken)

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OMG... I just used a translator..... Jerk is posting French Spam..... this is not what we need on this site.... how do we delete spam?

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

zap-admin you haven't done anything wrong. I beliee its a duplicate of this bug: #1361200: Roles with permission "view webfm attachments" can view attached files, but no longer actually download them. I need someone to test the dev-release so we can push out a new version.

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if you want to email me at jharrison at chtech.com as to where I can download the module I'd be more than willing to install, test and report back as I obviously have no means of fixing this in it's present state. Thanks.... Jeffrey

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Uhm, as mentioned in #1361200: Roles with permission "view webfm attachments" can view attached files, but no longer actually download them you can download the dev-release to test. It can be found here: https://drupal.org/node/821502

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Thanks neck.... I did see that link.... and problem looks similar. Installing 2.16rc1 did fix the issue.... but I'll to and install the dev-release and give it a try. Thanks again.

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Version: 6.x-2.16 » 6.x-2.18

I just got the same behavior on both 2.18 and 2.x-dev. Visiting the permissions section by going to configuration > webfm > permissions gives the role root dir not set + group root dirs not set for each of my groups. Attempting to set these options results in the same errors being displayed along with the PHP settings upload size error reported by zap-admin above (exact same, 2097152 MB).

Environment:

  • Drupal 6.25
  • MySQL 5.1.62
  • PHP 5.3.6

The odd thing is that the directories specified are in fact created, in the tree where I specified. The actual server file system mirrors the setup that I specified. The user, however, sees nothing, but can still upload. The upload goes directly into the repository root.