I have a question about 'silly safe mode'.
For a while, i've been running without safe mode. All is almost fine!
Recently my web host turned on safe mode. Luckily I was able to request that it be turned off for me, which they did.
I have had a few problems which is very much a pain.
Here is the problem.
in my userpics directory there are multiple directories, one for each uers, say 10001, 10002, etc.
When coppermine creates these files, they get the UID/GID of 'apache'. This appears ok as long as everything is normal.
However all the other files on my web host have a UID/GID of 'username' not 'apache'. As 'username' I can't do anything to these 'apache' files. This is a pest!!
Also, if I have to do a restore from my backup, all the files are placed back on my webserver as 'username', not 'apache'. After this happens, I have to chmod these 'username' folders to 777 to allow a user to be able to upload files otherwise coppermine can't write to the directories. This is more of a pest!!
So I thought I would be 'smart' and turn on 'silly safe mode'. When I did this, I noticed that users files no longer go into their subdirectory, but are all in 'userpics'.
Question 1) Is this the normal function when 'silly safe mode' is turned on?
Question 2) Is there another way to solve the issue with the folders being created as 'apache' and me having to chmod all the folders as which are owned by 'username' to 777 to allow user access?
Thanks for your thoughts and help!