XF 2.1 Error Installing 2.1 Beta 5 and 2.0.11

[frm]

I ran into this error while installing:

The directory /var/www/xxxxxxx/public/data must be writable. Please change the permissions on this directory to be world writable (chmod 0777). If the directory does not exist, please create it.
The directory /var/www/xxxxxxx/public/internal_data must be writable. Please change the permissions on this directory to be world writable (chmod 0777). If the directory does not exist, please create it.

As of now, they are owned by root, but it did not work with apache, nor with 777'ing the directory and 755'ing the internal (index as of now) files either as in other threads suggested for earlier versions of XF.

777 drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root   24 Dec 12 16:31 data
777 drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root   41 Dec 12 16:31 internal_data

I am installing this all via command line (no FTP client) so if you have experience in commands that might help, it'd be more useful.

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

You have to recursively chmod the directories to 0777.

You may also have to chown.

 

[frm]

You have to recursively chmod the directories to 0777.

chmod -R 0777 data
chmod -R 0777 internal_data

Resulted in the same error.

chown -R apache:apache data
chown -R apache:apache internal_data

Resulted in the same error.

 

[frm]

I tried this with the 2.0.11 release and the same thing.

 

[frm]

For future reference, the problem solved by using @jflory7 's post as it appears to be a SELinux thing.

# chcon -Rv --type=httpd_sys_rw_content_t data/
# chcon -Rv --type=httpd_sys_rw_content_t internal_data/

Source: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ries-not-writable-yet-777.107143/#post-997743