The .... directory is not writable.

neoneosa

Hey everyone, i need some help here. I composed Flarum into my forums directory, and executed "chmod -R 0775 /home/admin/web/shutteddown.com/public_html/forums", but i am getting the errors when i open my forum:

"The /home/admin/web/shutteddown.com/public_html/forums directory is not writable.
Please chmod this directory to 0775.
The /home/admin/web/shutteddown.com/public_html/forums/assets directory is not writable.
Please chmod this directory and its contents to 0775.
The /home/admin/web/shutteddown.com/public_html/forums/storage directory is not writable.
Please chmod this directory and its contents to 0775."

You can try yourself if you want: https://shutteddown.com/forums/. I am running Apache2, on Debian 8, on a VPS with root access. I only have a root user and group. I also use VestaCP to manage my website. How should i fix it?

Also, a small question: does Flarum work with PHP mail?

luceos

neoneosa Also, a small question: does Flarum work with PHP mail?

yes it does

neoneosa I only have a root user and group. I also use VestaCP to manage my website.

How does root and a vestacp work together? Under what user is the site running, if you know that, you know whom to chmod the files to. What I suspect is that the files are owned by root and vestacp is trying to serve the site under another user. From what I can see from the vestacp documentation sites are running under their own user. If the files are owned by root, no other user will be able to do anything with it.

neoneosa

luceos Well, only a root user exists, i also have tried phpBB and it works. The files are owned by "admin", but that user doesnt exist. However, my VestaCP user is called admin.

neoneosa

I got it to work by reinstalling Apache2...