Installing 3.5 alpha - problems

Wednesday 06 October 2004 4:54:46 am

Hi, I get this error message when I try to install 3.5 alpha through the setup Wizard in the System check.

Warning
open_basedir 
open_basedir is in use and can give problems running Exponential due to bugs in some PHP versions. 
It's recommended that it is turned off if you experience problems running Exponential. 
System check
There are some important issues that have to be resolved. A list of issues / problems is presented below. Each section contains a description and a suggested / recommended solution. 

Once the problems / issues are fixed, you may click the Next button to continue. The system check will be run again. If everything is okay, the setup will go to the next stage. If there are problems, the system check page will reappear. 

Some issues may be ignored by checking the Ignore this test checkbox(es); however, this is not recommended. 

It is also possible to do some finetuning of your system, click Finetune instead Next if you want to see the finetuning hints. 

Issues
1. Insufficient directory permissions
Exponential cannot write to some important directories, without this the setup cannot finish and parts of Exponential will fail.
The affected directories are: settings settings/siteaccess/admin design

Shell commands
These shell commands will give proper permission to the webserver.

cd /home/webjourn/public_html
chmod -R ug+rwx settings settings/siteaccess/admin design
chown -R nobody:nobody settings settings/siteaccess/admin designAlternative shell commands
If you don't have permissions to change the ownership you can try these commands.

cd /home/webjourn/public_html
chmod -R a+rwx settings settings/siteaccess/admin design

Clearly there shouldn't be a directory called "settings settings" or "admin design".
Help anyone?
Kenneth

Wednesday 06 October 2004 6:21:27 am

Thanks!

Chmodding the directories and all the files worked like a charm.

But a bit more information in the setup wizard would not hurt. ;-)

Maybe I'll finally manage to update my website from EZ 2.2 to the 3-series...

Kenneth

Saturday 02 July 2005 6:44:07 pm

I also encountered the notice stating I needed to chmod 8 directories. After doing the required chmod to each directory, it is still stating I have Insufficient directory permissions for the following 3 directories: root/settings, root/settings/override, and root/settings/siteaccess/admin.

I have verified that these directories do have rwx (777) permissions, but the installation continues to state "Insufficient directory permissions".

Server is running Apache/1.3.33 on Linux. Attempting to install Exponential 3.6

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Tom

Saturday 02 July 2005 9:02:43 pm

Stephen,

Thanks for the recommendation to chmod the *files* in the directories also. I did so and the install completed successfully.

eZ systems looks to have quite an excellent product in Exponential. I believe it is the tool I have been searching for and I am looking forward to testing it out.

Thanks again!

Best Regards,

Tom Henderson