[horde] Unable to write config files

[Rick Emery]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:55:32 -0700
Edwin Culp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:

> Quoting Rick Emery <rick at emery.2y.net>:
> 
>  | Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find any information in
>  | the
>  | FAQ or list archives about it.
>  | 
>  | I finally got upgraded to php 4.2.2, and things are working better. However,
>  | test.php tells me PEAR is installed, but not a recent version (I *JUST*
>  | downloaded it from www.horde.org/pear).
>  | 
>  | I get into configuration, change any settings, and click the "generate
>  | configuration" button (same thing happens for turba, mnemo, and nag) and I
>  | get a
>  | message that says "Writing not possible. Copy this code manually to
>  | blah/blah/blah/conf.php (OK, I made the "blah"s up :-)
> 
> Your web server probably doesn't have permission to write to the config
> directories.  I run apache with user/group as www:www so my config directories
> are also chown www:www *.  You would substitute the user and group that your
> webserver uses.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> ed

It does help. I hadn't even considered this, thanks

Rick