Permission denied

Question

I wanted to transfer the website to another machine but i get the following error

Why do i get this and how can i solve it?

Update:

The picture is bad. Message displayed:

Warning: require:once(.../qa-follow-widget2.php) failed to open stream: Permission denied in ..../qa-base.php on line 733

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '..../qa-follow-widget2.php' (include_path='...') in .../qa-base.php on line 733

Answer 1

How were the files transferred?  The problem is 99% file permissions.

Do you have root access.  Did you login to the new machine as root?  If so suggest to login to the new machine as the account holder not root, and try another transfer.

If there is hosting support, suggest contacting them, and they will fix the permissions on the file system.  This is a frequent issue and I am sure they can easily fix it for you.

If you have root access, you can execute the following

$dir = "myaccountname";  //*** substitute your own account....

$comm[] = "find /home/$dir/public_html -type f  -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;";
$comm[] = "find /home/$dir/public_html -type d  -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;";

echo "\nfixing permissions";

foreach( $comm AS $commline ) {
    echo "\n$commline";
    system( $commline );
}

Comments

Thanks for the answer. Actually it was something with the path resolution.