cannot bake CakePHP - permission denied while setting chmod +x for cake/console/cake - on NTFS mounted partition

Question

Just learning CakePHP and its Bake feature.

I tried to run

../cake/console/cake bake

from the app folder, but I get the error

../cake/console/cake: Permission denied

chmod 777 nor chmod +x don't work. I still get permission denied.

Also tried setting permissions thru the Properties window, but when I check "Allow executing file as program", it changes right back to unchecked.

If it makes any difference, my www/ folder is on an NTFS mounted partition. I used xampp on Windows before, and when I switched to Linux, www/ is still in that NTFS partition, and I just had my Apache in Linux point to that folder.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

the default linux ntfs driver cannot properly handle permissions settings on NTFS devices.

you need to look into the NTFS-3G drivers.

this might help https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11757/ntfs-under-linux

Answer 2

In case it helps anyone, what I ended up doing is that I changed Apache's www folder location to ~/www and did my baking there. When I was done, I restored Apache's www folder to my NTFS partition, then copied into it my newly-baked application.