[support] Why doesn't Drupal sees the "files" folder?

[Morbus Iff]

> * creating that directory, with the same owner and group as settings.php

This is probably your problem. For a directory to be considered a 
directory, it MUST have execute permissions. Common configurations are 
775 or -drwxrwxr--, depending on how your control panel visualizes it.

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