On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Jordan Windsor <jordanw2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I lost my LocalSettings.php file so I'm going through the MediaWiki > installation again, I'm up to the "Connect to database" stage, I enter > "/srv/http/data" for the database directory and "testdb" as the name, > after I click continue it displays a error message saying it can't > create the directory because the parent directory isn't writable, I've > already tried setting all involved directories to 777 but it still > displays the same error message. > > > /srv: > total 1 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Apr 8 04:18 . > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 536 Apr 8 04:17 .. > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root ftp 48 Apr 2 09:11 ftp > drwxr-xr-x 4 http http 136 Apr 12 01:25 http > > /srv/http: > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 4 http http 136 Apr 12 01:25 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Apr 8 04:18 .. > drwxrwxrwx 2 http http 48 Apr 12 01:25 data > drwx------ 2 root root 80 Apr 12 00:29 data.orig > -rw-r--r-- 1 http http 84 Jan 17 00:43 index.html > > /srv/http/data: > total 0 > drwxrwxrwx 2 http http 48 Apr 12 01:25 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 http http 136 Apr 12 01:25 .. > > Thanks. Problem solved, I needed to add "/srv/http/" to the open_basedir in the httpd config, I should have also checked the error_log from Apache.
