Hi,

i used koken to create my page so far (yut666s-retro-homecomputers.de) and i wan't to try a lavarel sys now.

I copied all October files to my server and change alle folder and file permissions BEFORE used the installer. All thgings were shown fine, but i always got a red cross at "Permission to write to directories and files". ... but why ... i checked and checked and checked the permissions again. They are set at 777. I deleted und uploaded the files 1000 times and set my permissions to 777, but i always got this error.

I little help would be cool, thanks.

Kind Regards

Tom

It doesn't matter, your permissions need to be writable by the webserver. What host are you on? In shared hosting instances in the past, I have had to contact their support so they can apply the correct permissions.

chmod -R ugo+rw public_html

kvarkas23656 said:

chmod -R ugo+rw public_html

Thank you, this helped me solve the problem!

If you use Centos check selinux status.

https://www.tecmint.com/disable-selinux-temporarily-permanently-in-centos-rhel-fedora/

kvarkas23656 said:

chmod -R ugo+rw public_html

This perfectly works for me. Just need to take care of the folder. Let say I have installed cms inside of 'octobercms' folder than command would be like this.

User parent directory and apply 'sudo chmod -R ugo+rw octobercms'

Is it safe having a writable root folder?

It depends on who can write to it, but in theory, yes. October has safe mode configuration that protects backend users from making changes to sensitive files, with no way to ever override this

For development environments, it's fine. In general, for high-security applications, you should not make your root directory writable at all and update manually by hand, although it is more complicated to manage