http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/1575/ Recent posts on topic: Check Permissions bug en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:07:24 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/9129/#post9129 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/9129/#post9129 kthomas I suspect the OP did not create the three directories below (manually).

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

]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:26:03 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7727/#post7727 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7727/#post7727 nokati Sorry to say but with the lack of answers I've had to give up on AC for the moment due to what clearly seems to be some major problems with the installer that manual installation does not fix.

All php tests Ive run on the little feedback Ive had say things should be working which is why Im, sadly, currently left pointing the finger at AC.

It may be some ac install incompatibility with a newly compiled php (5.1.0 which is the latest my obsd system will support till i can go visit the colo and move to debian) or it may be that there are some serious flaws with the 0.7.1 installation which I didnt previously encounter my original, dumped install ran 0.7 upgraded to 0.7.1.

Whatever the case - I havent gotten much feedback and sadly have to resort to basecamp handouts ... that said Im still willing to listen/help debug these (widely experienced) installer issues if anyone on the AC team is interested in solving them ... great product; wish I could run it.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2007 02:20:26 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7599/#post7599 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7599/#post7599 nokati forgot to mention - my test.php always says "yay" whether i plug cache, upload or public/files in ;)

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:45:18 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7598/#post7598 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7598/#post7598 nokati OK, there is definitely something up with the .71 installer Ilija - tried several types of installs, including manual and it all boils down to the installer thinking 777'd dirs arent writable and/or autoloader.php issues.

Just to drive this home:
<?php if (is_writable('/home/www/app.bin/activecollab/cache/')) { print "yay"; } else { print "boo"; } ?>

Yet we always have:
OK: /config/config.php is writable
Error: /public/files is not writable
Error: /cache is not writable
Error: /upload is not writable

showing that whatever test you are doing on directories fails on certain os's or php installs somehow (this is an openBSD/php5/mysql5 box that previously hosted a .70 to .71 install quite well).

Could you point me to which php's/classes you are doing these tests and checks at so I can try to modify/fix this?

Thanks in advance

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:44:36 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7572/#post7572 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7572/#post7572 nokati 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.

]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:10:40 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7567/#post7567 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7567/#post7567 nokati looking back this is identical to a problem that occured in 0.6->0.7 for several people (i.e. install, do proper chmod's, get permission/writable bases issues): http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/730/

Could this be a recurring bug in how you test the writable nature of directories rearing its hear? I really hate to say it but everythings proper on this end and the box has run AC in the past and nothing config-wise has changed (OpenBSD/Apache/PHP5/MySQL5) so I feel like Im going crazy :)

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:24:20 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7566/#post7566 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7566/#post7566 nokati 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!)

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:27:25 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7565/#post7565 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7565/#post7565 Ilija Studen It is possible. Try manual installation.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:42:09 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7562/#post7562 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7562/#post7562 nokati 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>

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:15:21 UTC http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7561/#post7561 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/7561/#post7561 nokati Basically I guess what Im asking is: do you have any idea how I could do something like this to my AC webdir:

root@xxx# chmod -R 777 activecollab/

and still come up with these results from the installer:

* 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

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:03:00 UTC