I recently dumped my old AC install (0.7 updated to 0.71) to start fresh - Im noticing something very odd occuring with Install Step 2 related to:

# OK: PHP version is 5.0.5
# OK: 'mysql' extension is loaded
# OK: 'gd' extension is loaded
# OK: 'simplexml' extension is loaded
# OK: /config/config.php is writable

# Error: /public/files is not writable
# Error: /cache is not writable
# Error: /upload is not writable

Its worth noting that config.php suffered the same issues but the chmod was recognized on the specific file - but not for any of the directories - I suspect this is a bug in the .71 installer (and even manually setting config.php doesnt allow for functioning due to same priv checks) as it is the same box, process, etc I used successfully for .7 and .71 upgrade previous to this fresh install.

Here are the insanely liberal perms:

root@xxx(activecollab)# la activecollab
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Apr 22 19:46 cache
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Dec 22 18:03 config
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Apr 22 19:46 upload

root@xxx(activecollab)# la activecollab/public
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Apr 22 19:46 files

essentially after many attempts resorted to chown -R www.www activecollab \ chmod -R 777 activecollab

Any advice would be great - I didnt have anything like this previously and these are the loosest perms avail and the php installer steps still dont detect the change so im at a lose.

Yep, understood - but Im still baffled as to why it cannot do this right now (remembering this is the same server that used to house another AC install successfully - the only key difference being I started with .7 and then upgraded to .71 rather than doing this straight-up .71 install).

if its helpful http is running as user "www":
www 8104 0.0 3.6 6964 9324 ?? I 10:42PM 0:09.19 httpd: child (httpd)

Thanks for your help - feeling frustrated and stupid I cant get this a second time around, I can chmod/chown till the cows come how and AC installer still says they are unwritable for unknown reasons.

OK, a little more info - because I do think there is something up with your installer.

To test this I wrote a very simple php script to try writing a small textfile there and it *did* work on the dir successfully:

root@xxx(activecollab)# la cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www 0 Apr 23 00:12 test.txt

root@xxx(activecollab)# cat writetest.php
<code>
<?
function write_file($file, $content) { $fp = fopen ("$file", "wb"); fwrite($fp, $content); fclose($fp); }
$path = '/home/www/app.bin/activecollab/';
write_file($path."cache/test.txt","hello world");
?>
</code>

Yep, tried that and go the db setup and now were to the autoload/cache problems:

Caught Exception in AutoLoader: exception 'Exception' with message 'Could not write to "/home/www/app.bin/activecollab/cache/autoloader.php". Make sure, that your webserver has write access to it.' in /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/environment/classes/AutoLoader.class.php:144 Stack trace: #0 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/environment/classes/AutoLoader.class.php(127): AutoLoader->createIndexFile() #1 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/environment/classes/AutoLoader.class.php(86): AutoLoader->createCache() #2 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/environment/classes/AutoLoader.class.php(111): AutoLoader->loadClass('DB') #3 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/application/functions.php(33): AutoLoader->loadClass('DB') #4 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/init.php(98): __autoload('DB') #5 /home/www/app.bin/activecollab/index.php(9): require('/home/www/app.b...') #6 {main}

It seems as long as AC believes that it cannot write to this dir theres going to be trouble - ive tried from freshly downloaded zip/tar.gz 3x now with the exact same result - this as far as it gets.

Thoughts? (Thanks again so much!)

still no luck - now stuck with autoloader & and an AC that thinks it can write to writable dirs (even though my php test script proves otherwise) - just pinging this thread up.