Permissions on folder

[pocttopus]

Hello folks,

I am on localhost to test the 2.1rc and I have an issue.
I need to change permissions on some folder, but permissions are writable. 
How can I solve this?

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The directory: /home/public_html/forum/avt has to be writable to continue the upgrade. Please make sure permissions are correctly set to allow this.

[Arantor]

Writable by whom?

[Gwenwyfar]

Try repair_settings.php too, I think that error also shows if the settings are incorrect, if it's in the upgrader.

[pocttopus]

Writable by whom?

I don't know either.
I just want to make an upgrade from 2.0.15 to 2.1rc on localhost to test firstly.

Try repair_settings.php too, I think that error also shows if the settings are incorrect, if it's in the upgrader.

repair_settings.php to fix this? I will try but I don't know what has to be fixed. 

[Gwenwyfar]

You just need to make sure all paths are correct to where the folders actually are.

[Arantor]

Well, you said you'd made it writable - the problem is that just making it writable may not be enough. You seem to have a Linux localhost, in which case the files being writable is absolutely in no way a guarantee of anything - the files + folders are likely not owned by the user being the webserver, which may be www-data or apache2 (on Linux, Apache runs as its own user)

I trust the installer to install correctly in terms of physical paths, and I trust the upgrader not to break existing paths, so I'm assuming it is a permissions problem rather than configuration.

[pocttopus]

I have used again repair_settings.php and now upgrade went fine.
Thanks folks, you are very kind. 

I'll mark this topic as solved. 

[Gwenwyfar]

Great

I had the same error so figured this might be the cause. And this is probably a bug in the upgrader, granted it can actually tell the difference between the two errors to not say it's a permissions issue.