bp-global-adminbar-css for bp-social reporting errors

I am hosting wp mu on Ubuntu Server and everything works well.

I tried to install the buddy press social theme “bp-social” (the theme seems to work fine) -but the header file “bp-global-adminbar-css.php” – when copied in to: wp-content/wpmu-plugins folder — produces the following error messages in the header area.

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Warning: include_once(/var/www/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-global-adminbar-css.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/wp-settings.php on line 473

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/var/www/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-global-adminbar-css.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:disappointed:usr/share/php:disappointed:usr/share/pear’:wink: in /var/www/wp-settings.php on line 473

Warning: copy(/var/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/thumb.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/wp-content/themes/bp-social/includes/custom-functions.php on line 19

I can’t figure it out – sorry to say -I’m a bi of a newbie — thanks for any help from any whiley veterans out there — major karmic payback fcoming your way.

one thousand thanks,

tom

  • tomis167
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    Thank you Andrew!

    I was my permissions! I suspected that from the “permission denied” clue. :slight_smile:

    I had tried that — but i still got errors — then i noticed the permission denied seemed to change to files in my wp-content/themes files.

    so i changed permissions to 755 for the entire wp-content/themes folder (and all sub-folders and files) to 755.

    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/wp-content/themes

    If you have another second -I’d love to hear whether or not that is a good idea. ?

    Have I created a security problem? I don’t fully understand the ramifications of changing a folder on my server to 755.

    Many thanks for your kind help.

    tom

  • tomis167
    • New Recruit

    @ both Richie and Andrew — as a point of clarification -not sure I was clear on this – chmod 755 to the bp-global-adminbar-css.php file, and the /wp-content/themes directory — completely eradicated ALL errors.

    Site and theme -(though I haven’t dug very deeply yet) are working completely normally! One zillion thanks.

    So now -I’m just concerned about having done a carte-blanche chmod 755 to entire wp-include/theme folder.

    Is that a bad idea? Do I have a security problem now?

    Many thanks you guys -very excited about this theme. — Tom