Permission denied in tmp

Question

I just deployed a Rails 3 app with Ruby 1.9.2. I have been getting several errors.

1. application.css wasn\'t compiled. so I set pre compilation in <

Answer 1

If the user:group running your web server is http:http and it's running on *nix, do this:

sudo chown -R http:http /srv/www/appname/

Also, silly question, but does /tmp/cache/assets exist?

And, if so, as @leonel points out, you may also need to change the permissions:

chmod 777 /srv/www/appname/tmp/cache

Be careful setting 777 permissions on anything. Only do this to verify a permissions issue, then reset to the most minimal permissions necessary.