UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Version 7/8 Support templates\compile directory question

Well, here's an actual "how things operate" question.

On our test run of the board in prep for the big cutover this evening, we've been getting "blank" content reports from our internal staff during testing.

I've isolated it down to permissions issues on the templates\compile directory. Because our entire site is protected with NTLM auth, our permissions are a little more prone to "opportunities".

This directory has the correct inherited permissions and is set to propagate them to the child objects. This works fine for most users. But, it seems that for some users (and I'm guessing it's the one or two of us with elevated domain priveleges), the files are being created without permissions for the appropriate access groups. This in turn causes little spots of blank content for the users (watch list screens, pm edit screen, etc... it varys widely.)

I'm trying to figure out how to remedy this, but don't understand the whole workings. When I change permissions correctly, the blank content issues are resolved. But I don't know if/when these files will be removed/recreated, etc. Will they eventually be recreated for all templates? Also, what process is creating them? Perhaps it isn't in an appropriate group so it's ignoring the inherited permissions and building from scratch.

Thanks,
Tim

Basically, any time a page is loaded a compiled template is created in the templates/compile folder for the requested page. If you delete them, they'll come back. It's part of the Smarty template engine. So really it needs read/write and modify privileges on the files and folder.

It has appropriate permissions for a variety of groups and is set to create new files in this directory with these permissions. The strange thing is that upon file creation, it doesn't create using those permissions. It creates with the currently logged on user, and a new set of permissions (SYSTEM, Local Admins, NETWORK SERVICE, etc.) An exception would be in the case of a user with administrative privs, as they just get the basic local system groups, without their user receiving permissions.

I imagine this is affecting us due to the fact our entire forums implementation is behind authentication. I guess in a case where it's all anonymous users, this isn't a big deal.

What is strange though, is that even though cache files, and other writable directories are set the same way, this only happens here.

I guess when all of these are created, any modifications, etc. at a later time will keep the same permissions. The issue is permissions that occur during initial creation. So, unless it deletes the old file and re-creates a new one, as opposed to just overwriting, I might be ok. I did take a spin through everything I could imagine, and then had that directory replace permissions on all child objects. I'll see if anyone experiences the blank content again.

Thanks,
Tim