# Mongrel Permissions and Cache

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-permissions-and-cache/136993>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 8, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-permissions-and-cache/136993 "2008-05-08T00:59:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-permissions-and-cache/136993/1 "2008-05-08T00:59:25Z")

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We’ve just started to implement page aching for our app, and it all  
works fine on our development machines, but when we move to staging  
there’s a problem, the cached don’t get written into the public  
directory because Mongrel don’t have the right permissions (we’re  
using Apache 2 and Mongrel Cluster). In fact it throws an error.  
I’m not much of a sys admin so I can’t work out how to find out which  
groups the Mongrels belong to and how to add them to a group that does  
have permissions. Any help here would be greatly appreciated

Dale