chmod error

[iveqy]

I got this error in step 7 of the installation.

 

The following error has occurred:

 

The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set.

 

Please perform the following actions:

 

* cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

* cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/admin/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

If chmod 706 does not work, please try chmod 777.

 

If you are running this installation procedure under a Microsoft Windows environment, try renaming the existing configuration file so a new file can be created.

 

 

I fully understand the instructions and have changed the permission many times... :)

 

Still doesn't work.

 

(Using Ubuntu linux with Lampp)

[♥Vger]

If using chmod via FTP does not work then you can try either of these:

 

1. If you have Telnet or SSH access to your site, connect via the terminal screen and then follow the instructions exactly as they are listed in the error notice.

2. Insert a file in the includes folder, call it chmod.php for instance, and include this code in it:

<?php
chmod ("configure.php", 0775);
?>

 

Then just go to http://www.yourdomain.com/includes/chmod.php and the file will perform the function.

 

Vger

[JoeKool]

Ok sence this is the first method Ive read on how to change a file to a different number permission, I tried it. I made a chmod.php and chmod1.php and put 1 each into each of my includes folder where each of my configure.php files are. When I try and run the one in the admin/includes I get a white screen, and so I dont know if its doing anything at all. And when I run the one in the catalog/inludes I get this message...

 

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

 

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

 

Error 403

localhost

08/24/05 21:31:47

Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.8 PHP/5.0.4 mod_autoindex_color

 

So could someone please tell me what Ive done wrong here, or perhaps a better/easier way of hanging a files permision??

[JoeKool]

Oh how about this error while trying to access index.php

 

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'mysql'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in D:\Chris's Program files\xampp-win32-1.4.15\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\includes\functions\database.php on line 19

Unable to connect to database server!

[davski]

I'm having great difficulty getting past this stage too - I have set permissions via my server file manager, via ftp and by asking my server administrator/help desk to look at it... everyone says that the darn thing is set correctly yet I can't get beyond the error message at stage seven.

 

Hard to believe this thing really works...

[ajuaristi]

I'm having great difficulty getting past this stage too - I have set permissions via my server file manager, via ftp and by asking my server administrator/help desk to look at it... everyone says that the darn thing is set correctly yet I can't get beyond the error message at stage seven.

 

Hard to believe this thing really works...

 

 

Same for me. I had same error with xampp. I made everything it's posible to access again to phpmyadmin and it's imposible. My option has been trying another package...

 

I would like to know if someone could install and make xampp work properly

[The Annoyed Man]

I not only have the same problem of an error during install as described at the top of this thread, when I try to upload and run a "chmod.php" script, I get:

Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in /home/domainusername/public_html/catalog/includes/chmod.php on line 2

 

I might add that when I chmod through my ftp client, and then go back and check the privileges for configure.php, the changes I've made are reflected in the file's permissions, so I'm at a loss.

[The Annoyed Man]

BUMP!