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Plugins Directory Permissions Notification Persists after Fixing

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#12,934 opened on May 18, 2018

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Server: Ubuntu 16.04 running Nginx 10.3.3 Matomo version: 3.5.0 MySQL version: 10.2.14-MariaDB-10.2.14+maria~xenial-log PHP version: 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

This error was encountered on a brand new install. The error only appeared after attempting to install a plugin. It was not present before that.

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Originally I had perms set so the plugins directory was read only by the webserver

chown -R manager:www-data web/
chmod -R u=rwX,g=rX,o= web/
chmod -R ug=rwX,o= web/tmp
chmod -R ug=rwX,o= web/config
chmod -R ug=rwX,o= web/piwik.js

After trying to install a plugin I got this error, so I fixed the permissions.

chown -R www-data:www-data web/
chmod ug=rwX,o= web/
chmod -R ug=rwX,o= web/plugins

The error message still popped up.

I set 777 for the entire web directory to test and still the error message shows.

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So I installed the plugin I was trying to install before and it installs perfectly fine. The error message still shows.

I cannot get rid of the error message and I don't know why.

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Research direction
Investigate the plugin directory permissions check logic and how the notification is cached or persisted. Look for a transient or option that stores the warning and check if it is cleared when permissions are fixed.
Tech stack
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3
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