Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." tom@tomholmes.net:
For some reason .... the user that owned the new directory was 1080 root even though I untarred the file as root .. bizarre.
The bizarre part is that you unarchived the file as root. Usually this is done in a user such as webadmin.
I had to change the all the files and directories to be owned by root ... and then chmod of settings.php file to 777 to start.
You should change them owned as webadmin (or some other equivalent for CentOS).
When I went to the install page ... that went very well, and I got to the first page to create the first account. I created the first account ... but rather than giving me the password ... it went to the login page saying I did not have access to that page.
Let's see CentOS. Isn't there issues with its default security policy, SELinux?
http://www.google.com/search?q=SELinux+site%3Alists.drupal.org&btnG=Sear...
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