Could not change to the templates directory ошибка c

Postfix Admin Setup Checker

Running software:

    PHP version 7.0.33-0+deb9u1
    Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)

Checking for dependencies:

    Magic Quotes: Disabled - OK
    Depends on: presence config.inc.php - OK
    Checking $CONF['configured'] - OK
    Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c is not writable.
    Please make it writable.
    If you are using SELinux or AppArmor, you might need to adjust their setup to allow write access.
    Depends on: MySQL 4.1 - OK
    Testing database connection - OK - mysqli://postfixadmin:xxxxx@localhost/postfixadmin
    Depends on: session - OK
    Depends on: pcre - OK
    Depends on: multibyte string - OK
    Depends on: IMAP functions - OK

Please fix the errors listed above.

root@mail:~# mkdir -p /srv/postfixadmin/templates_c
root@mail:~# chown -R www-data /srv/postfixadmin/templates_c

Hmm…. can you look at your version of setup and see where it’s expecting the templates_c directory to be?

What do you mean under «version of setup»?
I also want to know where it’s expecting the templates_c directory to be.

I did installation like that
apt-get install -y postfix postfixadmin

root@mail:~# apt-cache policy postfixadmin
postfixadmin:
  Installed: 3.0.2-2
  Candidate: 3.0.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.2-2 500
        500 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Directories not existed after apt-get install -y postfix postfixadmin
I created them myself with following command

root@mail:~# mkdir -p /srv/postfixadmin/templates_c
root@mail:~# chown -R www-data /srv/postfixadmin/templates_c

So root was owner of them.
Now I changed ownership chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/postfixadmin
CHMOD 0755 on postfixadmin and subdirectories

srv owner is root, but CHMOD is 755, so I believe apache can read that directory

so I should do like that?

apt-get remove postfixadmin
cd /srv/
wget -O postfixadmin.tgz https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/archive/postfixadmin-3.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf postfixadmin.tgz
mv postfixadmin-postfixadmin-3.2 postfixadmin

Yes that solved my problem.
It works now.
So please put update to INSTALL.TXT to avoid installation using DEB package

Hmm; I think something else is going on there — e.g. the .deb package is trying to use some other directory — e.g. /var/lib/postfixadmin/templates_c or something like that ….

The .deb SHOULD work …. (obviously!)

Your permissions/ownership on /srv, and /srv/postfixadmin were fine. /srv/postfixadmin/templates_c should be owned by www-data — assuming that’s your web server using (if using Apache). Otherwise, I’m not sure what’s going on. I have a vague memory of official Debian packages using /var/lib/postfixadmin/templates_c or something.

It’s a bit hard to know more without either you editing lib/smarty.inc.php and var_dumping the realpath($template_c) dir … or checking /var/log/apache2/error.log

I didn’t edit lib/smarty.inc.php
and as you saw by default from deb package I had postfix 3.0.2-2, not 3.2

@schel4ok: Which Debian release are you using?

it is written in the first message My system is Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)

root@mail:~# uname -a
Linux mail.iserver.ru 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@mail:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)
Release:        9.6
Codename:       stretch
root@mail:~# apt-cache show postfixadmin
Package: postfixadmin
Version: 3.0.2-2
Installed-Size: 3675
Maintainer: Norman Messtorff <normes@normes.org>
Architecture: all

On 05.01.19 20:49, schel4ok wrote:
***@***.***:~# uname -a Linux mail.iserver.ru 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP
Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux ***@***.***:~#
lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch) Release: 9.6 Codename:
stretch ***@***.***:~# apt-cache show postfixadmin Package: postfixadmin
Version: 3.0.2-2 Installed-Size: 3675 Maintainer: Norman Messtorff
***@***.***> Architecture: all |

Have you tried:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/postfixadmin/postfixadmin_3.2-4_all.deb

It is as of last September, but that is at least 1.5 years better/newer
then the package you have installed currently.

@david:
This is a perfect example of what we’ve discussed earlier. A release
would be great so that I can push for an update of the Debian package.

Yes…… I discussed creating a new release briefly with @cboltz a few days ago on IRC.

I believe he’s going to test a few things.

I’m toying with the idea of migrating the codebase to PDO (which would give us prepared statements).

I’m also not terribly happy with some of the password expiration stuff — I think it possibly needs to change so we have a password_updated timestamp column or we have a better mechanism for hooks — as the existing code (e.g. around

) is a bit fragile…

On 06.01.19 10:28, David Goodwin wrote:

Yes…… I discussed creating a new release briefly with @cboltz
<https://github.com/cboltz> a few days ago on IRC.

I believe he’s going to test a few things.

Great!

I’m toying with the idea of migrating the codebase to PDO (which would
give us prepared statements).

You’re talking about PHP Data Objects? http://php.net/manual/de/book.pdo.php
Interesting idea, but that will take some time to implement and test I
belive and should be something for release+1 if we want to have a chance
to get the current code into the next Debian release.

I agree.

Cheers
  Mike

Hi, I know that the post is old, but in mi case I resolved the error

Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c is not writable.
Please make it writable.
If you are using SELinux or AppArmor, you might need to adjust their setup to allow write access.

changed the owner to directory: /usr/share/postfixadmin/templates_c/

 sudo chown www-data templates_c/ -R

Regards.
Dario.