I have several pending support issues that require FTP access to our site. Accordingly, I have setup a development server on a subdomain. I am using Rsync to synchronize between the servers. The development server, however, shows the following error when I access the Joomla admin control panel:

Warning: file_put_contents(/disk2/www/html/subs/mx2/administrator/components/com_community/jomsocialupdate.ini) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /disk2/www/html/subs/mx2/libraries/joomla/filesystem/file.php on line 426

I've compared the corresponding directories for each server and do not see any differences in the jomsocialupdate.ini file. I'm wondering if JomSocial just doesn't want us to work outside of our specified top level domain?

Anyway, I would appreciate it if you could look into this so that we can proceed on several other issues that require FTP access.

Thanks. -- Rik

Hi Rik,

Please you check this file administrator/components/com_community/jomsocialupdate.ini and please make sure the chmod is 777 or 755, i just tried change it by myself, but I got "Response: 550 CHMOD 755 jomsocialupdate.ini: Operation not permitted"

thank you

Dimas:

I'm sorry. I had experimented with the jomsocialupdate.ini file while being the "root" owner instead of keeping that file to the proper ownership group:name required for the development server. The interesting thing, however, is that that file on the production server was chmod 644 and working fine there. As far as I can tell, they are the same file on each server but react differently on each server. I've set those files to be chmod 777 on both servers as 755 didn't work on the development server.

Anyway, that appears to resolve this issue. Thank you. -- Rik