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I am not an expert, but I know enough to get me into trouble.  This is my first Drupal/CIVICRM installation. After signning into Drupal as admin, I see a message which reads:

One or more problems were detected with your Drupal installation. Check the status report for more information.

When I check the status report I see a message which reads:

File system Not writable
The directory sites/default/files is not writable. You may need to set the correct directory at the file system settings page or change the current directory's permissions so that it is writable.


From my web host cPanel, I changed the permissionns on Sites to 777, Default to 777, Files to 777.

I sign out of Drupal and sign back in to Drupal but the permissions on the Default folder is again reset back to 555.  Is this a problem with my web hosting account or is there something in Drupla/CIVICRM that is preventing me from changing the permissions?

When I click on the CIVICRM link in the Administrator Panel, I receive the following errors:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Please make sure the IDS/tmp folder is writable' in /home/digigeni/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/IDS/Monitor.php:187 Stack trace: #0 /home/digigeni/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/IDS.php(139): IDS_Monitor->__construct(Array, Object(IDS_Init)) #1 /home/digigeni/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php(78): CRM_Core_IDS->check(Array) #2 /home/digigeni/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module(332): CRM_Core_Invoke::invoke(Array) #3 /home/digigeni/public_html/includes/menu.inc(348): civicrm_invoke('dashboard') #4 /home/digigeni/public_html/index.php(18): menu_execute_active_handler() #5 {main} thrown in /home/digigeni/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/IDS/Monitor.php on line 187

Any help would be greatly appreciated