Thanks Rick and Shai!
Seems the exact permission I needed was " 755" on the "Defaults" directory.
-----Original Message----- From: lists-drupal [mailto:replies-lists-drupal@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
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Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 05:58:57 PM -0800
From: "brendan, fresh-off.com" hello@fresh-off.com
To: support@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.
- Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to
./sites/default/settings.php.
- 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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