Error: Catalog images directory is not writeable

[safeg]

Hi there

This morning, when I logged in into admin, I got this message on the to of the page:

Error: Catalog images directory is not writeable: /home/virtual/site50/fst/var/www/html/images/


Any idea what that supposed to mean? Thanks

[kobra]

What are the permissions on your /images directory?

[safeg]

Hi Kobra. Its 755. This message only appears when I open Categories/Products under Catalog

[kobra]

755 is writeable - - are you certain that this is the directory that your install is looking at??

[safeg]

Yes, I am sure.

Everything seems to work fine, images in online catalog work fine as well. But I have just reminded myself that I had a similiar problem yesterday but slightly differen. When I opened shops front page I got this message:

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: ==================== This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file (read-only, CHMOD 644 or 444 are typical).

So I did. Is it connected? Todays problem with yesterdays? Or is it totally something else?

[kobra]

Totally something else

What is in both your configure.php files for

 define('DIR_WS_IMAGES',

[safeg]

This is from configure.php file from /var/www/html/includes directory:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');


and from /var/www/html/admin/includes location:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

[safeg]

And they both have 755 permission set

[kobra]

I am at a loss as to why you are seeing this message???

[safeg]

This is from configure.php file from /var/www/html/includes directory:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');


and from /var/www/html/admin/includes location:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

The file from the first location is missing DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES.

hmm, it says catalog images in this warning...is this the problem?