Fighting Absurdity With Absurdity:
THIS SITE AND ALL CONTENT THEREIN IS ENTIRELY PERSONAL IN NATURE; THEREFORE THE OPINIONS, COMMENTS, BELIEFS, ET CETERA THEREIN MAY NOT BE CONSTRUED AS BEING THAT OR ENDORSED BY ANY EMPLOYER OF MINE, PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, THOR, MARS, THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER, OR THAT BUM WHO JUST BILKED YOU OUT OF A CIGARETTE. BY THE WAY, THAT DUDE MAKES MORE PANHANDLING THAN YOU DO AT YOUR OFFICE JOB.
What to do when you’re trying to get someone onto decent hosting, and budget crap stands in the way.
NoDaddy.
Dealing with a client we’re trying to move off their meh infrastructure onto our omgwtfbbq infrastructure.
Problem is, I can’t migrate their docroots. Well, I can grab most of the docroots – but curiously, there’s a number of files which are owned by apache:apache and -rx to anything but, wull, Apache.
The virtual server in question has no root access, no sudo, and no way to configure either through their control panel. Last time I had the misfortune of dealing with GoDaddy’s support… Let’s just say, I don’t have three days for another non-resolution.
What to do? Wull, it is a Drupal site…
<?php
system('/bin/chmod -R go+rx /path/to/files', $retval);
?>
Suck it, Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
(Please note that your mileage may vary depending on how insane the host you’re trying to rescue a client from is. :p)
Note: Still working out comments/etc. theming. Please ignore the ugliness.