By TN563 on

Hello!
I have installed Drupal on my site and I need some help. When I go to the templates section, this error appears at the top of the page:
warning: mkdir(files): Permission denied in /home/coco563/public_html/firefox/includes/file.inc on line 77.
What does it mean? I have CHMODed the file 'file.inc' and the entire includes directory along with each file to 777! Please help me!!

Thank you! :)

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kbahey commented

The user under which Apache runs (nobody, or www or whatever) is trying to create a directory called files, but the permission of public_html (or the directory where you installed Drupal) does not allow it.

Change the permissions of public_html/firefox to allow others write in this directory.

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teri@bglog.net’s picture

teri@bglog.net commented

I think that you can make directory /home/coco563/public_html/firefox/files, and change it's permissions to 777. I think this will solve the problem.

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TN563 commented

Ok, I made a folder called files and CHMODed it to 777 and now Drupal is happy.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

777 is actually a bit dangerous. I'd try to find some less liberal settings. If you can CHOWN the directory to be owned by the apache user this should be possible.
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