Newbie Installing NEed Help

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Raytravis
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Newbie Installing NEed Help

Post by Raytravis »

Hi all..
I am encountering this error. Can you please help me out...

To check your local webserver installation, serendipity needs to be able to write the file ".htaccess". This was not possible because of permission errors. Please adjust the permissions like this:
chmod go+rwx C:\Inetpub\devroot\DEV - Cuscaden Residences Site/
and reload this page.Checking to see if the database and tables already exist... they do, will not install the database again

Attempting to write .htaccess file...... FAILED

Cannot write to file C:/Inetpub/devroot/DEV - Cuscaden Residences Site/.htaccess. Please create the file yourself or check permissions

* Just copy the code below and place it in C:/Inetpub/devroot/DEV - Cuscaden Residences Site/.htaccess in your serendipity folder:
# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex \/index.php

<Files *.tpl.php>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.tpl>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
deny from all
</Files>

# END s9y
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Re: Newbie Installing NEed Help

Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!

Serendipity has no write permissions on the mentioned directory, you need to setup your server so that the User of Apache/PHP/IIS is allowed to write to the directory.

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