[support] immediate installation errors

[Tim McGeary]

Thank you for the responses.  First off, I know that 777 is bad.  I was 
just making the point that I tried to set my permissions to fully 
writeable and it still wasn't working.

I made the error_reporting change in the php.ini file.  This is the 
first app I'm installing, and I don't expect the others to need E_ALL.

So I made only the ./sites/default/settings.php with permission 777 and 
the rest at 755, and I am still getting the error:

Drupal database setup
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the 
installation process:
The Drupal installer requires write permissions to 
./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process.

What else should I check?

Tim


Tim McGeary '99, '06G
Senior Systems Specialist
Lehigh University
610-758-4998
tim.mcgeary at lehigh.edu


Larry Garfield wrote:
> Two separate issues.
> 
> First, regarding settings.php, *do not under any circumstances make
> your entire Drupal install world-writeable*.  That means that anyone
> who has access to the computer, legitimately or not, can alter or
> delete your entire Drupal system without you knowing it.  Do not do
> that!
> 
> You want apache.apache to have write access to settings.php ONLY.
> Setting that file and only that file to 777 is one option, although
> if you can put it in a group that is owned by both you and the web
> server and then set it to 664 or 660, that's even better.
> 
> As for the Notices, your web server is set to E_ALL error checking.
> Drupal 5.x is not E_ALL complaint, although Drupal 6 will be.  For
> now, you need to disable E_ALL checking for your Drupal install.  You
> can do that locally by adding the following line to the .htaccess
> file in your Drupal directory:
> 
> php_value error_reporting 2039
> 
> 2039 is the numeric equivalent of the PHP constants E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE.
> (Trust me on that. <g>)  That tells PHP to report all problems that
> are less trivial than E_NOTICE, which is what Drupal is coded to.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --Larry Garfield
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:03:40 -0400, Tim McGeary <tmm8 at Lehigh.EDU>
> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install Drupal 5.1 and I am getting the following
>> errors immediately upon attempting the installation through the
>> browser:
>> 
>> Notice: Undefined variable: no_module_preprocess in 
>> /usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1467
>> 
>> Notice: Undefined variable: no_theme_preprocess in 
>> /usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1488
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> Drupal database setup The following error must be resolved before
>> you can continue the installation process: The Drupal installer
>> requires write permissions to ./sites/default/settings.php during
>> the installation process.
>> 
>> For the write permissions error, I set the permissions to 777 for 
>> everything inside the drupal-5.1 directory and all files are owned
>> by apache.apache.
>> 
>> I have no clue how to move forward.  Please advise.
>> 
>> Thank you, Tim
>> 
>> -- Tim McGeary '99, '06G Senior Systems Specialist Lehigh
>> University 610-758-4998 tim.mcgeary at lehigh.edu -- [ Drupal support
>> list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>