joephilar

fredrix,

In UNIX based systems every file is assigned to specific owner and group.

I don’t think you have enough visibility through your FTP client, that’s something you will need SSH access to change.

What it seems to me is that the configuration of our Apaches doesn’t force our cpanel users to be used as both owner and group of the files the PHP is creating (the plugin files), so “nobody” user is reported.

But later on, when the PHP tries to do something else, it does use the correct user.

What seems to be very weird is the fact that I recursively changed all the plugin files owner and group to “arqui” (my cpanel user), and didn’t work … I tried to recursively assign 777 permissions to the files … and didn’t work either.

Tha1ded to give the issue one more try. So,

1. I deleted (thanks for the correction, I’m still working on my english) all the contact form 7 files (including the folder)
2. I re-uploaded the files using FTP
3. I enabled the module in the dashboard

What I don’t remember is which folders and files permissions outside the plugin folder I changed last week. And I guess you don’t remember what changes you made either.

So, I was wondering if you currently have your site in production, or you can whipe it off and start from scratch?

Hi guys,

I was having this same issue with Contact Form 7 and other plugins using the dashboard. It seems the problem is due to the owner the system assigns to the files “nobody” in my case. I’m using a CentOS+CPanel server.

I erased them and upload them using FTP and they are working just fine in the dashboard now.

ric_fin … did you try manually too?

fredix … is that environment staging or production? so you can install fresh?