LESS errors in UI after installation

csf

I've just installed Flarum locally (OS X). Some quick notes on that...

1) I installed Composer in /usr/local/bin, so to use it globally.
2) I setup a virtual directory to run the site at /Site/discussion
3) When installing Flarum, the process interrupted at "Installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (6.1.1)". I had to get a GitHub token, which worked, and the process continued again to completion.
4) Your installation documentation (http://flarum.org/docs/installation/) doesn't make it clear that you need to create the database first. You should make that more clear so it's not a guessing game.
5) Your installation docs also don't make it clear what you mean by "server configuration block" when talking about "Nginx" and "Lighttpd", so I just ignored that part for now. Devs probably know what you mean, but none devs like me do not know, so you should make it more clear what file, specifically, needs edited in those cases. I can do these things If I actually know what to open and where to find it.
6) When first opening the Flarum install in a browser, I had to chmod permissions one a few locations. The instructions said use "0755", but I could not get this to take. I had to use "777".

After that I refresh the browser. I expect to see a default view of the Flarum front-end, but instead I see a UI full of errors. In the left column there are 26 errors (number 0–26). Most of them seem to have these in their paths: ".../vendor/oyejorge/...", ".../vendor/flarum/...", ".../vendor/zendframework/...".

A lot of the problems mention "LESS", but not only. If I click any of these items in the left column, they show a related snippet code in the body of the main screen. Means nothing to me. Might as well be Arabic.

In the top of the screen is another error, this:

Less_Exception_Parser
Less.php cache directory isn't writable: /Users/me/Sites/discussion/storage/less/

So what's going on? I'm guessing part of the problem might be #5 above, concerning the "server configuration block", so if you can clarify what that means, I can start there. Anything else?

Franz

csf The one error message at the top is, in fact, the only error. Looks like you didn't make the storage directory including all its subdirectories writable. ?

That said, thanks for your feedback, we'll be sure to improve the installer!

csf

Thanks. I had made all the chmod changes it asked me to. Is that an additional one that is missing in the documentation?

csf

Can you show me what command I might use? I'm in the install directory and trying "chmod 777 storage", but it's not working.

csf

DuckDuckGo-ed it. Actually needed "chmod -R 777 storage".

Everything looks good now. You may mark as solved.

I would recommend making it clear that a user needs to use "-R" when doing the rights changes on the storage directory (to get all the subfolders too). That would have probably made this entire thread unnecessary. ?