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Hi all,

I am excited to try out this fantastic looking software! I am a total newbie, and am trying to install October CMS on a Ubuntu VPS on DigitalOcean using the wizard installer.

I have the wizard file unpacked in the /html directory and have only one error when I run the install file (as seen here: http://45.55.21.251/install.php).

I noticed the cli install method instructs to give the following permissions:

sudo chown -R root:www-data app/storage

sudo chown -R root:www-data themes

sudo chown -R root:www-data uploads

sudo chmod -R 775 app/storage/

sudo chmod -R 775 themes

sudo chmod -R 775 uploads

Problem is I do not have any of those folders! I manually created them but it did not solve the issue.

Here is what I've tried to do so far:

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/html

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chmod 775 /var/www/html

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chmod -R 775 app/storage/ chmod: cannot access ‘app/storage/’: No such file or directory

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# ls install_files install.php README.md

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# mkdir themes

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# mkdir uploads

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chown -R root:www-data themes

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chown -R root:www-data uploads

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chmod -R 775 themes

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chmod -R 775 uploads

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# mkdir app

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# cd app

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html/app# mkdir storage

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html/app# cd ..

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chown -R root:www-data app/storage

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# chmod -R 775 app/storage/

root@singletrackbc:/var/www/html# service apache2 restart

  • Restarting web server apache2

I am totally clueless about this stuff. Hopefully someone get get me to the next step! :)

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