[documentation] ownership of /var/cache/self-service-password causing silent 500 error

[tobast]

Hello,

On a fresh Debian install of SSP today through the apt repository, I struggled for some time with a HTTP 500 error on the home page, with no error logged/displayed in-browser if I configured my php-fpm to do so.

After a while, I figured out that /var/cache/self-service-password (created by the deb archive) is owned by www-data:www-data . However, I run my php-fpm in a dedicated pool, under the (manually created) user ssp. This made the cache directory unreadable, and caused a crash with no message.

I believe it is a pretty common pattern to run php-fpm with a dedicated user instead of www-data, and that this caveat might be added somewhere in the install documentation.

Thanks!

[davidcoutadeur]

We could add a remark in the install section indeed.

Thanks for the feedback

[pptfz]

I also encountered the problem of accessing 500 and spent a long time figuring it out by myself
Modifying the permission of this directory '/var/cache/self-service-password' to be consistent with the user running 'php-fpm' will solve this problem @tobast thanks

[gbresu]

After installation at last Debian the same error 500. The rights to the directory /var/cache/self-service-password is - root:root. But I did not find php-fpm in the package dependencies. Should php-fpm be installed separately? Is there any additional configuration required?