Cisco and Windows XP Help

Wow this had a simple answer. I feel silly. It all started when I made a custom 404 page, editing the .htaccess file and the Apache configuration. I went into Contribute to make sure I could still edit files and found:

Access Denied. The file may exist, or there could be a permission problem.

When using Contribute to edit the root page of my site. Pages in other directories were fine. The pages in the other directories had the same file permissions!

I thought it was possibly some server update I applied awhile ago that broke, or an Adobe Contribute misconfiguration. I removed my connection to the site.

When I added the connection back in, I got the browse folder dialog ok, and after I choose my sites root folder I got:

Contribute cannot verify your connection information.
/var/www/html
Please contact your administrator for assistance.

Rude! Well after some investigation I found that Contribute CS3 writes tmp files to the root directory. So I thought maybe Mod_Security was preventing writing or reading tmp files.

NOPE. The permissions for the root dir itself had been changed. Possibly during an update, or when I ran this command:

sudo /sbin/restorecon -R -v /var/www/html

At any rate, here is my solution:

sudo chown staff:webauthors /var/www/html

Note: staff should be the name of the sftp user you have in contribute, and webauthors should be their group. Make sure the owner has write permission of course.

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