CiviCRM not recognizing 777 permissions.

[civieric]

CiviCRM refuses to install, telling me two directories need write permission. I've set both to 777 (after 775 wouldn't work) and this isn't helping.

total 17444
drwxrwxr-x. 5 apache apache     4096 Oct 23 12:49 .
drwxrwxr-x. 5 apache apache     4096 Oct 14 17:04 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 3 apache apache     4096 Aug  1 16:49 akismet
drwxrwxrwx. 3 apache apache     4096 Jul  8 17:43 civicrm
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 apache apache 17830202 Sep  7 10:21 civicrm-4.3.5-wordpress.zip
drwxrwxrwx. 2 apache apache     4096 Oct 14 17:12 files
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 apache apache     2255 May 22 17:08 hello.php
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 apache apache       30 Apr 15  2009 index.php

[civieric]

When I disabled SELinux, it ran ok. 

It might be good to add an SELinux suggestion to the warning when the installer can't get write permission.

Thanks.

[Donald Lobo]

hey eric:

any chance you can research and figure out why SELinux was not allowing apache to write to those directories even though it has write permission?

r u running apache as user apache or user www-data

lobo

[civieric]

Donald:

Sorry I didn't get back to the forum for a while and missed your query.

I've just been avoiding SELinux so I'm not in a position to do what you request.