Restrictive File Permissions Prevent Installation

[pippinsplugins]

While doing my first test, I noticed that having restrictive file permissions prevents the installation from working, which is expected, but instead of showing an error of some kind, it just reloads the setup screen with no indication of what the problem was.

[pippinsplugins]

One possibility for how to improve this is to to simply provide the plain text to paste into config-settings.php

[arvislacis]

@TheLoneCuber I used 7xx permissions for all dropplets files and it worked (but I am not sure how correct is that).

[cadesalaberry]

@TheLoneCuber : I also had a similiar problem on my installation, And the following set of commands seemed to have solved my problem

cd path-to-blog-folder
chmod 755 -R *
chmod 644 -R *.*
chmod 755 -R *.php
chmod 650 .htaccess

Can somebody confirm it is a sufficient fix ?

[thomasjpr]

the config folder still needs to be writeable by the setup script.

[kmontenegro]

I've done a couple of Dropplets installs but this host has permission issues which @cadesalaberry's solution didn't address. I'm looking for the config folder but I'm not seeing it: looked in the dropplets directories but not finding a config folder per se and the config file can't be created due to the permissions issue.

Thanks.

[tophut]

Hi kmontenegro, did you manage to solve it finally?

[kmontenegro]

@tophut thanks: actually removed the directory and started over. i think it was related to the major update/upgrade of dropplets. again, thanks!

[darrylgibbs]

Can anyone talk me through this? I'm Linux & command line noob, so I'm suffering here with this permissions thing.

I've tried all these ideas and those on the issues 212 thread and nothing works. Please help??!!

[Patmacessex]

All is pretty vague about this, the 30 seconds to install is out the window for me, I tried the following : Created a folder called blog, installed Dropplets inside the folder, it comes up with a message saying "It seems that your config folder is not writable, please add the necessary permissions." So it was google to the rescue or so I thought. I read on several pages that it's not the config folder, but there has to be a writable config.php file, great, so I created a new config.php file, now I get a blank index page, with nothing in it. So I decided to install it onto the root of the website, same problem. then I a chmod of 777 to all files and folders, still same problem. So I decided to SSH into the server and do a UNIX command line install from github... Guess what, still the same blank page, or the password page with that ennoying message about permissions. It's the lack of documentation of this problem that really irritates me, one site even sugested to change apache settings, uhhh no I have multiple websites running. And before you ask, yes PHP is installed, SQL is, en all the rest. Wordpress no problem, joomla no problem, MyBB no problem, THEY HAVE DOCUMENTATION. As it stands I will give this software a big fat 0 out of 10, and I will try some other package.