[ic] Image upload permissions

[Paul R Stearns]

Jerry:

Ignore me, I re-read your message, and I answered a different question than
the one you asked...

Paul

Paul R Stearns wrote:

> Jerry:
>
> The following is based on IC 4.6.0 and the construct demo.
>
> I am not the final authority on this, but I believe that the images are
> stored in 2 directories called thumb and items. These directories are
> located in the directory wwwroot/catalogs/images, where wwwroot is the
> path to the root of your website. On my system the images directory is
> actually a link from the catalogs directory to the actual html directory
> assigned in apache.
>
> I had problems with uploading at the begining and needed to play about
> with group access and permissions, but I don't believe that I
> compromised security to the ...catalog/pages... directory tree.
>
> If I have messed this up I am sure someone else out there will correct
> me.
>
> Paul
>
> Jerry wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know the minnimum permissions you can
> > set to allow a store owner to use the upload
> > image widget?
> >
> > We'd like the store owner to only add/edit/delete
> > items along with upload the appropriate image
> > file(s). With permissions in the UI set for
> > item editing, an attempt to upload gives
> > a "Sorry, no permission for page files" error.
> >
> > They have to have access to the page files to
> > upload a graphic related to items for sale?
> > This seems like a very dangerous thing to do.
> > I must be missing something, but can't seem to
> > find a combination that works.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Interchange-users mailing list
> > Interchange-users@www.minivend.com
> > http://www.minivend.com/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
>
> _______________________________________________
> Interchange-users mailing list
> Interchange-users@www.minivend.com
> http://www.minivend.com/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users