Problem installing plugins

live2win · Post by **live2win** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:00 am

For some plugins--but very few--it installs fine.

For about 98% of them I get this error.

Cannot write to directory /home/live2win/public_html/blog//plugins/. Please check the permissions.

Permissions checked...everything should be fine.

http://blog.live2winradio.com

ANY help is appreciated!

live2win · Post by **live2win** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:49 am

Update

Still playing with it...different permissions...now I get this

Trying to open URL serendipity_event_podcast.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 14250 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/live2win/public_html/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_podcast/serendipity_event_podcast.php...
Cannot write to file /home/live2win/public_html/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_podcast/serendipity_event_podcast.php.
Trying to open URL lang_fr.inc.php?rev=1.9999...

and more

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:10 pm

Hmmm... of course, the simple question is whether the permissions on plugins/ allow the webserver to write to it. Try 775.

The second question is whether you already have a serendipity_event_podcast/ directory, and what its permissions are.

live2win · Post by **live2win** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:41 pm

First--I figured out how to do it manually...so I installed most of what I wanted, manually.

Trying the 775-gives me the error I got in the first post--cannot write.

The second question--it would create the directory with permissions at 777, but would not install the files. So I had to actually delete the folder whenever I tried to install it...manually changing the permissions to 777 did nothing.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:32 pm

Hi!

Maybe you configured different permissions for file/directory creation in the spartacus plugin? What did you enter there in the chmod/chown configuration options?

Best regards,
Garvin

live2win · Post by **live2win** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:55 pm

I put in, 0777, then 777, 775, and 755

I kept changing it, as well as changing the permissions on the plugins folder as I tried to get it working. It seemed like no permissions worked.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:36 pm

Hi!

And did you change the chown configuration options there as well? Or only from chmod?

If the owner was changed, the chmod settings would apply to that setting.

You might best leave the settings empty in the spartacus plugin for chmod and chown, then change your /plugins directory (and subdirectories) to 0777 and it should work.

Regards,
Garvin