[Xerte] Re: Problem with Xerte Online Tools installation

[Pat Lockley]

The root and setup folder need to be writable to?

Do the setup tests fail for those folders?

On 25 May 2012, at 19:47, Gary Lee <gary.lee at ncpontefract.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi, I'm not sure I'm emailing/posting to the right place here, but I wondered if someone could shed any light on a problem I'm having installing Xerte Online Tools to an existing web server?
> 
> I have chmodded the required files and folders as per the prerequisites in the installation guide, but the setup wizard complains that the files are still not writeable, and installation fails at creating the database configuration file.
> 
> I've even gone as far as changing the permissions on the whole xerte folder recursively just to get it working, but there still seems to be a problem.
> 
> I've checked the PHP requirements and everything seems fine there.
> 
> The environment is Ubuntu Server 11.10 Apache 2.2.20 PHP 5.3 (fast-cgi) MySQL 5.1
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Gary
> 
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