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A new install of drupal v.6.2
immediate install attempt of civicrm v.20.4 with php5
I have one error during the auto install process:
towards the bottom:
"Is the files folder writeable" The web server user myserver needs to write be able to write to this file:
/home/myserver/public_html/mysubdomain/drupal/files

I'm a newbie, so files in essence is "everything below drupal" as there isn't a folder named "files" as I didn't think there was, but ya never know.
So I chmod all of the individual files, but that didn't work, now I have to go thru ea. dir and 777 them. And then I, thru cute ftp started chmod 777 everything, but that is laborious and stupid and probably not safe.

Is there an install file permissions map that shows what various permissions are for the various folders?
AND-Any ideas on how to solve this one? There is no "Is the files folder writeable" error listed on google or here. Yes it is misspelled in the app, not me.
I allso have telnet access

First off, this is really a Drupal error not a CiviCRM error.

Second, if you had a brand new version of D6, I would start over, because you really don't want to change permissions on all the files in Drupal. If you don't want to start over, then set all the permissions back to how they were before you started.
If you don't set everything back, then you are making your drupal install very vulnerable!

Next:
So in reality, when you install Drupal, it tries to create a folder called "files" in its root. Which, on your install, would be here:
/home/myserver/public_html/mysubdomain/drupal/

However, when you installed Drupal, it couldn't create that, which means you just need to create it for drupal. So you would go to /home/myserver/public_html/mysubdomain/drupal/ and create a folder called 'files'. Then just do this:

chmod 777 files/

Now you have created a directory called 'files' in your drupal root that is writeable by the webserver. Now recheck your requirements on CiviCRM and it should be good to go.

Hope that helps!

Thanks that did it except that I missed it, the obvious, that CiviCrm 2.0 won't install in Drupal 6.X. You've sated in other posts, after searching, that D6.x should be supported in Civicrm 2.1 later in the fall.

Thanks though, you did nail it.