Bolt CMS - posix_getuid()

Question

I've seen that there are other bugs which mention this issue but I think this one is slightly different. I have 3 folders in the files directory and when using the file manager I can access the first folder 2015-04 fine and as expected. However when I attempt to access the other two folders 2015-05 and 2015-06 I receive the following error.

Call to undefined function Bolt\Filesystem\posix_getuid()

If this is a result of PHP posix not being installed, then why can I access the first folder fine. Which is what leads me to think the issue is something else, but I could be wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Yes, it is php-posix not being installed causing the error to be thrown.

The posix_getuid() function is called to check file read/write access under certain circumstances.

The files/ folder is checked fairly early in the bootstrap, and I am guessing that 2015-04 has read/write and that 2015-05 and 2015-06 allow read, but not write access to the web server's user context.

There was a workaround for this fairly late in 2.1.x from memory, but you're better off to install/enable the POSIX extension if at all possible.