eZ 3.5 New Release - Cannot get it to install. Permissions are correctly set, but it just won't get past System Check

Saturday 25 December 2004 2:47:12 pm

Hi everyone. I am new to eZ Publish. I've experimented with quite a few OS CMS out there, my favourite so far being Typo3.

I've heard many good things about this CMS and its new bells and whistles that have intrigued me. So today I download myself a fresh copy of eZ Publish v3.5 that was realeased a few days ago and unzipped the distribution package onto my hd. I created a new DIR on my webserver and then uploaded the package into it.
Next I simply pointed the browser to mywebsite.com/newDIR/index.php and the install wizard popped up. So far, so good I thought. And that's where the fun ended. Unfortunately. :(

The System Check gave me the error reports and pointed out that there were some file permissions that need to be set before commencing.
So I changed the file permissions via FTP and set CHMODs to 777 for the directories that the wizard listed. After having done that, I proceeded by hitting the "NEXT" button in the wizard browser window.

However, it tells me that only SOME files have now been set correctly.
The directories that still do not have the correct permissions are the following:
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The affected directories are: settings settings/siteaccess/admin
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Eh ... so I went back and again checked whether the directories in question DO have the CHMOD settings set to 777. And they do.

Further down the wizard gives me additional info on how to overcome this problem (I am not listing the first option as I am on a shared server and do not have access to change the settings I think):

Alternative shell commands

If you don't have permissions to change the ownership you can try these commands.
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cd /xx/htdocs/xxxxx/www.mysite.com/eZdir
chmod -R a+rwx settings settings/siteaccess/admin
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Can anyone help me with this problem I'm having? Do I have to change more permissions somewhere that I've overlooked? Because the directories that are listed in the error message are set to 777. :(

Thank you in advance

Maleika

Saturday 25 December 2004 3:39:35 pm

Thanks Tim.

I've not chmodded the single files within the 777 dirs, so that might be the problem. I will go and do that and see if that helps.

Thanks a ton for your fast response.

Maleika