I really messed up my file permissions and owners

[lakay]

I ran chown and ended up assigning all files to root. How can I restore file owners to default?

 

[Cold-Egg]

For OLS configs? Assume you installed it from the repository, maybe you can try to reinstall the OLS package and see if it helps.

 

[lakay]

How can reinstall without erasing my sites?

 

[Cold-Egg]

Reinstalling the package won't erase the existing config or site, only the admin console password may need to be reset.

For the CentOS system,

yum -y install --reinstall openlitespeed

For the Debian/Ubuntu system,

apt-get install --reinstall openlitespeed -y

You can back up the site config before reinstalling just in case.

Let us know if it works.

 

[lakay]

Thanks!

Tried to reinstall. Unfortunately, it did not work.

Can't access LiteSpeed Admin and can't access WordPress sites.

 

[Cold-Egg]

mmm, have you checked if those file permissions back to the origin after the reinstallation?

 

[lakay]

Update: I was able to reinstall after updating /tmp permissions to 1777. I can access LiteSpeed admin.

New Issue: I can't start mySQL. These are the errors:

 

[lakay]

Updated mariadb using your guide here. Worked well!

Thanks for the help!

 

[technotic]

mmm, have you checked if those file permissions back to the origin after the reinstallation?

It would be great to have a bash script or included in ols1clk.sh, or in the admin/misc directory, that would read the httpd and admin config conf files and reset the $SERVER_ROOT permissions appropriately. Maybe I should post it on the repo

 

[Cold-Egg]

I remember package update would fix the permission, not sure if lsup is able to fix it or not. Sure, you can raise an issue on git.