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Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
September 07, 2008, 10:44:52 pm
I am trying to install CiviCRM 2.1.beta3 on a Drupal 6.4 using a XAMPP host on my hard drive, using PHP 5.2.6 and MySQL 5.0.51b-community-nt. Everything is checking out ok on the pre-install check except for the file permissions.

It tells me: "Is the sites\default folder writeable? The web server user needs to write be able to write to this file:
C:/xampp/htdocs/drupal\sites\default"

I went into my Drupal folder and clicked "share this folder on the network" and "allow network users to change my files" for by the sites folder and the default folder.

I still get the same error.

Can anyone help?

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
September 08, 2008, 04:21:49 am
You do not need to share the folder on the network. You need to change the permissions on those folders temporarily so that your webserver can write to them. See http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4666.msg20339.html#msg20339

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
September 09, 2008, 09:43:33 am
   If you still struggle to find the solution, here it is what I did (for Window XP Pro installation).


     After the tons of failed try, I finally figure it out.
   
   I can not change it from the Windows explorer, no matter what I did, use sharing, or change its permission from top down.

   Use the unix utility for windows solved my problem, just download the unxutils (search google), and use the "chmod 777" to change the folder permission, it works like magic for me.


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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
October 03, 2008, 02:06:24 am
It would be really helpful if you could give some idea of HOW you used unixutils please - I can't figure it out.

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
October 05, 2008, 11:13:38 am
have you tried double backslashes per http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5056.0.html
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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
October 28, 2008, 06:45:09 am
Hi guys.....

No need to edit files or anything, simply need to change remove the Read-Only status from the directory.
Though not using the Explorer way!!

Here we go:
The method that worked for me was to go to start/run cmd  and go to the /sites folder. (or if you have cmdhere installed, in explorer right click folder cmdhere). Once in this folder apply the following command to solve the problem:
attrib -r default /s /d


Problem solved,

Let me know if it worked

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition by cmd line
January 01, 2009, 11:57:34 am
I am using WAMP installed on Windows XP to test my Drupal site.

The command line method worked to make the folder readable for the install and saved me mega-hours of frustration. Do I need to set it back after installation? If so, what is the cmd line to use?

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
January 06, 2009, 12:05:25 am
No - you don't need to set it back - I can't remember the details but I did look it up earlier and the read only setting on the folder (not the files) is trivial. You can actually access it through the XP GUI too but once again I don't remember all the details
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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
August 12, 2009, 12:24:25 pm
Quote from: patroclas on October 03, 2008, 02:06:24 am
It would be really helpful if you could give some idea of HOW you used unixutils please - I can't figure it out.


Having the same problem with write permissions, I followed up on the unxutils advice. This is what I did exactly:

- downloaded Unxutils from sourceforge.net
- unzipped it somewhere on my harddrive (exact location not important)
- copied program chmod.exe to C:\
- ran: START > RUN > CMD
- (then make sure you're in C:\ ; if necessary use command MD C:)
- ran: CHMOD 777 j:\xampp\htdocs\drupal-6.13\sites\default   (ofcourse the path could/will differ)

This did work.




 

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Re: Write Permissions to Windows XP Home Edition
January 24, 2010, 05:18:35 pm
Thanks Rob, this worked great for me the first time round on my XP Pro SP3 running WAMP
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