Your data directory...is not writable : Elgg.org

Your data directory...is not writable

By Cowley 5364 days ago

I finally started to install Elgg on a production server but the installer throws a wobbly with the following message:

"Your data directory /home/*****/*****.org/pvtdata/ is not writable"

I checked that the data directory is writable (777).

Elgg resides in /home/*****/*****.org/htdocs/

Any useful tips or clues are welcome. Thanks.

- Cash@costelloc
Cash 4320 days ago
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1. This is a really old thread
2. Commenting out checks in the installer only delays dealing with the underlying issue.
- Mani@maninderjitSingh
Mani 3502 days ago
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I am on Ubuntu 13.10 with LAMP stack had the same problem so this is what worked for me
1. Open terminal
2. "cd" to your elgg data folder
3. type " sudo chmod 777 data " (without quotes, "data" is name of my elgg data folder) and push enter
4. Restart apache and that's it.
I am not sure it will work for everyone but after hours of internet search this is what worked out for me.
- Nikolai Shcherbin@rivervanrain
Nikolai Shcherbin 3502 days ago
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@Mani Corrected 3rd step is
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R data
sudo chmod -R 755 data

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