By ownage on

I could follow every Drupal documentation guide out there until the cows come home, but I know this is a permissions issue, and it doesn't look like CHMOD is the answer.

To illustrate, I have set up identical versions of Drupal 7.2.x on two different directories and users. The first installation gets past the third installation stage without any problems (as it should). The second one (with an identical Drupal installation) gets to the same stage and stalls with the following permissions error:

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/276/drupalinstallation.png

Link to install.php on working user (user1)
http://tinyurl.com/temporary-install-link-working

Link to install.php on non-working user (user2)
http://tinyurl.com/temp-install-link-not-working

Do you know what is going on here?

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jaypan’s picture

jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Have you created the sites/default/settings.php file (copy of sites/default/default.settings.php) and created the sites/default/files folder? If so, what are the permissions and ownership on these?

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ownage commented

I figured it out. The reason I haven't been able to install Drupal on this domain is because I was trying to install it under a different FTP account (to test a random ftp account), WHICH IS A REMAPPED SUB-DIRECTORY. CGI does not work across remapped sub-directories, and the PHP scripts have to be under the same user of the domain-- the user primarily assigned for the domain.