Set file permissions direct or through Trellis?

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I have WooCommerce installed and it’s currently not able to write to its default log file.

WooCommerce - System Status:
Log directory writable:

To allow logging, make /srv/www/mydomain.co.uk/releases/20200309193629/web/app/uploads/wc-logs/ writable or define a custom WC_LOG_DIR .

I suspect I should not SSH in and modify the file permissions in that release directory, as it’ll change upon next deploy. Is the usual process to set the permissions via Trellis somehow?

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That’s odd since it’s under the normal app/uploads dir which should be writeable otherwise no other uploads would work. Do your media uploads work as expected?

That being said, you could try setting WC_LOG_DIR to Trellis’ log dir so that all logs are in one place. Nginx logs are at /srv/www/mydomain.co.uk/logs.

You can set it under the env property on your WP site:

example.com:
  site_hosts:
    - canonical: example.com
      redirects:
        - www.example.com
        - site.com
    - canonical: example.co.uk
      redirects:
        - www.example.co.uk
env:
  WC_LOG_DIR: /srv/www/mydomain.co.uk/logs

Ideally we wouldn’t have to hardcode paths like that but there’s no good solution for that yet :frowning_face:

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Thanks @swalkinshaw - Unfortunately no change so far, even the status showing where it’s trying to log files to did not change (apart from the /releases/number part). Provision went through successfully with the change in production/wordpress_sites.yml

My dev environment is working fine and has a green tick for the same log file location.

That’s odd since it’s under the normal app/uploads dir which should be writeable otherwise no other uploads would work. Do your media uploads work as expected?

Yes. I usually have S3 Uploads plugin enabled, there is no wc-logs file in there, and I then disabled the plugin and uploaded a media file locally which loaded fine. The logs are no where to be seen.

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I manually SSH’d in and checked out the file permissions for the folders. I set 755 for the wc-logs, is this the correct user and file level of permissions required?

drwxr-xr-x 3 web www-data 4096 Mar 8 23:30 2020
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 08:25 wc-logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 12:28 woocommerce_uploads

The status page now shows green tick for the log directory (without WC_LOG_DIR set).

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755 is correct but the owner should be web:www-data and not root which is dangerous.

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