By gleble on

I have installed Drupal several times on several sites with no problem. Now I am trying to install 6.1 and it seems the permissions are wrong
"The directory sites/default/files does not exist. An automated attempt to create this directory failed, possibly due to a permissions problem."
I've checked the permissions and get 700. The website will not let me change permissions. What can I do.

Running Ubuntu

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

With permissions 700 Drupal (or any php script) is unusable. The web server can't even read files. How far did you go into the installation? Which directory is 700? All of them?

You may need to ask tech support from your host.

To allow Drupal to create a sites/default/files directory, the parent directory sites/default must be either owned by yourself with permissions 777 or owned by the web server ("apache" or "nobody") with permissions at least 755.

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gleble commented

I only got to select a language. Checked again the Dupal-6.1 directory has a chmod of 755 not 700, 755 still doesn't let it write. Do I need to ask my servers to change this?

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

755 is right for Drupal's directory, because Drupal does not need to write there.

Which directory has permissions 700 and does not let you change it?

gleble’s picture

gleble commented

I've just checked again Drupal-6.1 is 700 and so are all it's sub diretories. I don't know where the 755 came from.

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gleble commented

Got my servers to change everything to 755. Nicely installed now