Oserror - Errno 13 Permission Denied

Question

I am trying to upload image through admin page, but it keeps saying:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/path/to/my/site/media/userfolder/2014/05/26'

the folders userfolder/2014/05/26 are created dynamically while uploading.

In Traceback, i found that the error is occuring during this command:

In /usr/lib64/python2.6/os.py Line 157. while calling

mkdir(name, mode)

meaning, it cannot create any folder as it doesnot have the permission to do this

I have OpenSuse as OS in Server. In httpd.conf, i have this:

<Directory /path/to/my/site/media>
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

Do I have to chmod or chown something?

Accepted Answer

You need to change the directory permission so that web server process can change the directory.

To change ownership of the directory, use chown:

chown -R user-id:group-id /path/to/the/directory

To see which user own the web server process (change httpd accordingly):

ps aux | grep httpd | grep -v grep

OR

ps -efl | grep httpd | grep -v grep

Answer 2

This may also happen if you have a slash before the folder name:

path = '/folder1/folder2'

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/folder1'

comes up with an error but this one works fine:

path = 'folder1/folder2'

Answer 3

Probably you are facing problem when a download request is made by the maybe_download function call in base.py file.

There is a conflict in the permissions of the temporary files and I myself couldn't work out a way to change the permissions, but was able to work around the problem.

Do the following...

Download the four .gz files of the MNIST data set from the link ( )
Then make a folder names MNIST_data (or your choice in your working directory/ site packages folder in the tensorflow\examples folder).
Directly copy paste the files into the folder.
Copy the address of the folder (it probably will be ( C:\Python\Python35\Lib\site-packages\tensorflow\examples\tutorials\mnist\MNIST_data ))
Change the "\" to "/" as "\" is used for escape characters, to access the folder locations.
Lastly, if you are following the tutorials, your call function would be ( mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True) ) ; change the "MNIST_data/" parameter to your folder location. As in my case would be ( mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("C:/Python/Python35/Lib/site-packages/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/mnist/MNIST_data", one_hot=True) )

Then it's all done. Hope it works for you.

Answer 4

Another option is to ensure the file is not open anywhere else on your machine.

Answer 5

Simply try:

sudo cp /source /destination

Answer 6

supplementing @falsetru's answer : run id in the terminal to get your user_id and group_id

Go the directory/partition where you are facing the challenge. Open terminal, type id then press enter. This will show you your user_id and group_id

then type

chown -R user-id:group-id .

Replace user-id and group-id

. at the end indicates current partition / repository

// chown -R 1001:1001 . (that was my case)

Answer 7

Just close the file in case it is opened in the background. The error disappears by itself

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