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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 12:07:12 am
Can you check if the file sites/default/civicrm.settings.php exists. If not then its a permission issue otherwise it could be memory limit issue.
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 12:21:26 am
Is your civicrm path defined correctly in your crm.settings.php file?

$civicrm_root = 'C:\\wamp\\www\\html\\sites\\all\\modules\\civicrm\\';

Have you used double \'s?
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 09:59:03 am
Deepak - File exists

Eileen - path is:

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$civicrm_root = 'C:/wamp/www/drupal-6.4/sites/all/modules/civicrm';
(it would not include the '/html/' part in wampp)

I have freed up some webspace on a unix server so am not pursuing the local install - but it would be good to get this sorted as there seem to be others with the same problem. (The unix install has been faultless!  :))

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 10:54:29 am
no - the /html/ is specific to my install but it didn't work for me until I traded unix direction slashes for windows direction slashes & doubled them
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 11:02:49 am
nb - having to double slashes in paths is fairly common in windows land as the slash works as an escape character - telling it to take whatever character is after it literally.
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 12:27:48 pm
I have edited the settings file but it does not seem to have had any effect - when attempting to enable the civicrm module in Drupal, the previous error is generated and/or a timeout is reported.
I regret that I must leave this problem now as I am fully committed setting up my on-line installation, although I would be interested to see if a solution is found by others - thanks for the help on this.

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 05, 2008, 03:02:32 pm
Quote from: Deepak Srivastava on October 04, 2008, 06:19:34 am
If you suspect its a code issue try commenting the line 266 to 270 (shown below) in the file - civicrm/install/index.php, which is actually responsible for verifying the permission and check.
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            foreach ( $writableDirectories as $dir ) {
                $this->requireWriteable( $cmsPath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dir,
                                         array("File permissions", "Is the $dir folder writeable?", null ),
                                         true );
            }


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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 31, 2008, 05:49:27 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: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 31, 2008, 01:42:17 pm
Yes, but I'm wondering if the real answer isn't to amend the install script.
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 31, 2008, 03:45:41 pm
Thanks Eileen - that's the most sensible reply yet. I abandoned attempts to install locally - which should be easy out of the box IMO.

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
October 31, 2008, 08:08:52 pm

Probably, but considering that the development team does not have any windows expertise (and i suspect most of us are not interested in gaining this expertise either), its up to our windows community to come up with patches to do so :)

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
November 01, 2008, 08:29:39 am
In the mean time, perhaps a note in the installation instructions could save some time for people like myself. Or perhaps a link to this topic?

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
November 01, 2008, 12:45:19 pm

The wiki is community editable. Please edit the wiki and do the needful. The core team does check and monitor the changes made to the documentation

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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
November 01, 2008, 02:27:20 pm
I've done a little poking around and the 'is_writable' test is not useful on folders in a windows environment. It tests for the Read-Only attribute not permission. Read-only is used on Folders in Windows to achieve things other than what it says - and should be ignored.

I would suggest that this test should be circumvented for windows - e.g. add an if the environment is windows return true, else do the existing function.
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Re: Install / XAMPP / XP Pro - How to grant write access to "sites/default"
November 12, 2008, 09:25:00 am
Another problem you might encounter with Xampp on Windows is that CiviCRM needs innodb support enabled.

Instructions here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/21/enable-mysql-innodb-storage-engine-support-in-xampp-installation/
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