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biggles
biggles

Reputation: 3061

Webserver cannot write to directory when installing CMS

I have a local stand-alone LAMP stack that I'm using for local web development. I've tried to install multiple CMS's that all use PHP to write data to a MySQL database and files on the webserver (Concrete5, Symphony, GetSimple CMS).

However when I try to install any of these I get error messages that each state something along the lines of "the files I need to change are not writeable by the webserver."

Concrete5 error message:

error: Web Server Access to Files and Configuration Directories
The /config /packages and /files directories must be writable by your webserver

Symphony error message:

Missing log file

Symphony tried to create a log file and failed. Make sure the install folder is writable.

Obviously this is a permissions issue, however I've tried changing the owner & group (recursively of course) of apache's www directory to many different combinations of root, the apache user & group and my own user & group as well as set the permissions all the way to 777 using chmod, and still I get the same error from all systems.

I can drop a regular static file (like phpinfo) into the www directory and apache serves it up just fine, but no matter what I change the permissions to the CMS's cannot write to the server. What is going on?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2148

Answers (1)

Ja͢ck
Ja͢ck

Reputation: 173612

If you use seLinux, it's not enough to give permissions using chmod. You have to grant apache permission to write into those folders as well.

More information can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/apache

Upvotes: 2

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