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This issue is driving me nuts. I have been hacking away at it for hours. I'm trying to install civicrm on a subdomain of a shared server with a separate drupal install and DB.

The install script is looking at two different directories and I don't know where the source of the incorrect url is. You can see below what the issue is.

On the first two lines, it has the path correct, then the last two lines are missing the subdomain folder.

"File permissions

Does the webserver know where files are stored?   OK (/home2/primarydomain/public_html/subdomain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/)
does the CiviCRM path contain PATH_SEPARATOR?   OK (/home2/primarydomain/public_html/subdomain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/)
CRM folder exists   OK
packages folder exists   OK
templates folder exists   OK
js folder exists   OK
api folder exists   OK
i folder exists   OK
sql folder exists   OK
Is the sites/default/files folder writeable?   *Error The user account used by your web-server - primarydomain - needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file:
/home2/primarydomain/public_html/sites/default/files
Is the sites/default folder writeable?   *Error The user account used by your web-server - primarydomain - needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file:
/home2/primarydomain/public_html/sites/default"

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have searched all over for an answer but I'm coming up with nothing.

This is what exactly I'm facing with. is there any solution? should i hack the index.php? I think there should be a better work around for this case?

Due to lack of knowledge    I'm not capable of patching the codes.

There seem to be a few similar errors related to installing CiviCRM in a subdirectory; in particular, when a separate CiviCRM installation also exists in the root directory. I suspect that all of these problems are due to the cmsPath variable getting the wrong value (as lobo suggests above).

In my situation, I am installing Drupal/CiviCRM 3.3.5 into a subdirectory (home/aenweb/www/test/) with an existing Drupal/CiviCRM 3.1.3 installation in the root directory (home/aenweb/www/). The install throws the "Oops! CiviCRM is already installed" error. Looking at the code (line 121 civicrm/install/index.php), this error is triggered when the script detects an existing file at $cmsPath/sites/$siteDir/civicrm.settings.php. So, it appears that the value of cmsPath is not what I expected (/home/aenweb/www/test/).

The $cmsPath variable is set by the cmsRootPath function (line 350 civicrm/CRM/utils/System/Drupal.php). This function searches for the Drupal includes/bootstrap.inc file. In the case where both home/aenweb/www/includes/bootstrap.inc and home/aenweb/www/test/includes/bootstrap.inc exist, the function stops when it detects the former and returns the root directory (home/aenweb/www/) rather than the subdirectory (home/aenweb/www/test/).

I'm not really a programmer, so I'm not sure how to fix this (or if there are potential unintended consequences of changing the function) beyond hard-coding the correct path or bypassing the already installed check in the script.

this has been fixed for the 3.4 / 4.0 series. Would be great if you can download the alpha and test it out

thanx

lobo

Tried out the 3.4alpha -- installed with no problems, and the Resource URLs seem to be getting set properly.