Root Directory = Fail

  • Resolved milkymedia

    (@milkymedia)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I have auto installed WP on a VPS, Ubuntu, LAMP etc with no cPanel backend.

    I’m getting this on installer.php:

    Root Directory - Fail

Path: /home/wordpress/public_html
[Fail] Is Writable
[Pass] Contains only one zip file.
Result = 51c4463530e006521_20130621_analoguerecordingstudiomanchest_package.zip
Manual extraction still requires zip file

    The current WP install on this path works fine.

    I have tried different folder permission settings, tried blagging it using this…
    using-duplicator-for-wp-without-cpanel

    I know it’s not the ultimate root of the server I’m on, but its the folder I need it in.

    I am new to the VPS world, so it could be something glaring.

    If anyone can suggest anything though?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/duplicator/

    Edit: I was able to install in a similar public_html folder, when the domain was added using zPanel backend.

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  • Hey milkymedia,

    If you have open_basedir on you might try to turn it off via the php.ini or relax the settings. If it is already off you may need to change the group/owner of the your public_html folder, so that the PHP process that Apache runs under is able to write to that directory.

    Basically the check for:

    [Fail] Is Writable

    is making a call to the PHP is_writable method. So if PHP is unable to write to the path then it will fail. Here is another good resource for permissions in WordPress.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter milkymedia

    (@milkymedia)

    Hey thanks for that, sorry for the delay, had to shelve a few things.

    It worked when both open_basedir was off and permissions were set to public.

    I changed back afterwards and all seems rosy!

    Cheers

    Great! Thanks for the update…

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