By gauravb on

If you are running Drupal on Fedora Core 3, it is possible that you might run into this error. On going to admin->settings, you get an error message saying "Directory files is not writeable". This happens even if the files directory is chmodded to 777. I banged my head on this for a long time and finally know why it was not working. Bascially, SELinux was enabled on my FC3 install and I had to use the "system-config-securitylevel" command to disavle the targeted policy for httpd.

I am posting this here in case anybody else runs into the same problem in the future. Hopefully Google will index this soon enough as well :)

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BLC-dupe’s picture

BLC-dupe commented

I'm kinda new to SELinux (been running an old webserver without it for ages), and I've been sat trying to figure this problem out for ages!

I would never have thought to check that.

Thanks!

huc’s picture

huc commented

newbie to drupal...

I'm running Drupal 4.6.1 in OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger - localhost)

I'm seeing the same error but in looking at the folder permissions they're set to read/write which should be correct.

Any insights on what might be causing the error or how to correct it are appreciated

Cheers
Huc
Brian Huculak