Thanks Rick and Shai!
Seems the exact permission I needed was " 755" on the "Defaults" directory.
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From: lists-drupal [mailto:replies-lists-drupal at listmail.innovate.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:13 PM
To: brendan, fresh-off.com
Subject: Re: [support] fresh D6 intall; endless permissions loop
For a directory to be readable it has to have read *and* execute
permissions. With 444 you're setting things to only read. That's
correct for reading a file, but not a directory.
- Rick
------------ Original Message ------------
> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 05:58:57 PM -0800
> From: "brendan, fresh-off.com" <hello at fresh-off.com>
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] fresh D6 intall; endless permissions loop
>
> Hello,
> I'm having permissions problems. I'm following the warnings from
> Druapl, making the fixes - but the warnings and fixes just seem to
> go in a loop. I had a new install of D6 and was installing a few
> modules. After hitting "save" it brought me to the Drupal D6
> install page (which was confusing). I clicked on "install" and I
> received the warning message about making the file
> "./sites/default/settings.php" from
> "./sites/default/default.settings.php". This was more confusing
> as I'd already created that file.
>
>
>
> I messed about with it for a while, and things seem to change
> based on the directory permissions. Anyhow, it was a new enough
> install that I figured I'd just delete the DB, create a new DB and
> reinstall D6, but I seem to still be getting similar permissions
> problems.
>
> If I have the permissions set to "777" for the following
> directories and files
>
>
>
> ./sites/default/
>
> .sites/default/files/settings.php
>
>
>
> then I can proceed with the setup, but get this warning:
>
>
>
> "All necessary changes to ./sites/default and
> ./sites/default/settings.php have been made, so you should remove
> write permissions to them now in order to avoid security risks."
>
>
>
> If I follow those directions and set the file and directory to
> "444" and refresh, I get this warning:
>
>
>
> "- The Drupal installer requires that you create a settings file
> as part of the installation process.
>
> 1. Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to
> ./sites/default/settings.php.
> 2. Change file permissions so that it is writable by the web
> server.
>
> - The directory sites/default/files does not exist. An automated
> attempt to create this directory failed, possibly due to a
> permissions problem. To proceed with the installation, either
> create the directory and modify its permissions manually, or
> ensure that the installer has the permissions to create it
> automatically."
>
> At this point, I find that have to set the permissions of the
> "default" directory and "settings.php" to "777" make the above
> warning go away. (no other RWE combo seems to work.. only "777")
>
> Anyhow, after changing the permissions to "777" , I get the
> previous warning again:
> "All necessary changes to ./sites/default and
> ./sites/default/settings.php have been made, so you should remove
> write permissions to them now in order to avoid security risks."
>
> It just seems to be going in an endless loop. I've installed D6
> several times, but never had this happen. Any idea what is going
> on?
> >
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