{"id":545,"date":"2010-02-28T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:42:23","slug":"fatal-write-failure-etcvaliasesdomain-tld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/fatal-write-failure-etcvaliasesdomain-tld","title":{"rendered":"Fatal! Write Failure: \/etc\/valiases\/domain.tld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may receive the <strong>&#8220;Fatal! Write failure \/etc\/valiases\/domain.tld&#8221;<\/strong> error message while adding a email forwarder OR a catchall email address from Email Accounts section of cPanel. The error looks like follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>Fatal! Write Failure: \/etc\/valiases\/domainname.tld. Ignore any \r\nmessages of success this can only result in failure!<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8216;Fatal! Write Failure&#8217; issue occurs when the \/etc\/valiases\/domainname.tld file is missing OR the file is having incorrect permissions. SSH to the server and create\/correct the file permissions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># cd \/etc\/valiases\/<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># touch domainname.tld<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># chown username.mail domainname.tld<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"># chmod 644 domainname.tld<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once the valiases file is created for the domain with proper permissions, you will be able to add the email forwarder and catchall for the domain successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may receive the &#8220;Fatal! Write failure \/etc\/valiases\/domain.tld&#8221; error message while adding a email forwarder OR a catchall email address from Email Accounts section of cPanel. The error looks like follows:<\/p>\n<p>Fatal! Write Failure: \/etc\/valiases\/domainname.tld. Ignore any<br \/>\nmessages of success this can only result in failure!<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Fatal! Write Failure&#8217; issue occurs when the \/etc\/valiases\/domainname.tld file is missing OR the file is having incorrect permissions. SSH to the server and create\/correct the file permissions:<\/p>\n<p># cd \/etc\/valiases\/<br \/>\n# touch domainname.tld<br \/>\n# chown username.mail domainname.tld<br \/>\n# chmod 644 domainname.tld<\/p>\n<p>Once the valiases file is created for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1275,724,1274,725,728,726,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}