Temp directory on windows.

Posted by nick.thorley on October 8, 2012 at 11:49am

I have installed Drupal 7 on windows and in general its working fine with the major exception of that we cannot update the software. When I go to run the available updates script and the tick an update to install I get an error about a .tmp file could not be copied.

I suspect that its either not finding or has the wrong permissions on the temporary directory. I have the temporary directory set to c:\temp and this has full permissions (from what I can see) but its still failing to download updates.

Can anyone suggest a possible solution

Thanks

Nick

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This is a common problem in a

Posted by John_B on October 9, 2012 at 12:41pm

This is a common problem in a Linux setup when people first come to Drupal on Linux and sometimes is related to the fact /tmp has full permissions but is mounted as no exec. As far as Windows is concerned all I can say is that there is a long-known and not really resolved bug which prevents giving full permissions to folders outside the Libraries / User folders. What you should be able to do is is set your temporary folder for Drupal to a folder within My Documents or something of that kind, rather than c:\tmp, and ensure that Drupal has permission to write to that. Just a guess, though based on experience.

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Solved

Posted by nick.thorley on October 9, 2012 at 2:51pm

That seems to have solved it - thanks