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peocke

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problem with writing civicrm.settings.php
March 08, 2009, 02:52:54 pm
Hello,

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to install civicrm as a drupal module.

The reasons for this is that I am not possible to make sites/default and sites/default/files writable.
This has, for some reason, only been allowed for one other folder in my web directory.

Does anyone know of a way I can use that one writable directory instead of sites/default, or should I simply give up trying because it is hardcoded into the whole of civicrm?

thanks in advance

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Re: problem with writing civicrm.settings.php
March 09, 2009, 12:48:46 am
If you could set the owner for sites/default/files dir to the account your web server uses by default (or runs as), it would still work. For e.g on Debian-based systems, Apache (web server) runs as the user 'www-data'. 

You could figure this out from any files/folder you know is created by application itself OR contact your host.
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Re: problem with writing civicrm.settings.php
March 27, 2009, 07:58:17 pm
I'm on windows server 2008 and there are a number of obstacles I'm facing.  An example or template for civicrm.settings.php would get me pretty far as I could just edit it manually.

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Re: problem with writing civicrm.settings.php
March 27, 2009, 10:25:18 pm

check:

templates/CRM/common/civicrm.settings.php.tpl

for the settings template that the installer uses

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Re: problem with writing civicrm.settings.php
March 28, 2009, 09:13:32 am
I'm going through the same headaches. You didn't say whether you are working on a remote or local machine. If it's your own machine, you should be able to right-click on the file and then disable the Read-Only box at the bottom of the properties sheet. That's what I have been doing. Drupal resets it, so I have to keep going back and changing it as I try to find out where the H CiviCRM wants its root directory to be, or how to tell it where it is.
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