Who is the owner of the files?
ls -la

Root, however that is what Nginx and PHP-FPM are running as. (I've tried using both nginx and root)

    BlameDylan

    That explains it. Nginx runs by default under www-data; chown the files to that user. No user can modify or write files or in directories belonging to root.

      [root@server www]# chown -R www-data:www-data *
chown: invalid user: ‘www-data:www-data’

        And never, ever set access rights to 777, unless you want your site to get hacked. (This is a very common reason sites get hacked on shared environments). The last 7 indicates everyone can write; this also allows a bad script on someone elses site to do naughty things 😉

        BlameDylan ah, it could also be www-run; check your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf at the top i think

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          ...
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
...

          Another thing: there is nothing in the views directory, wouldn't that be the problem?

            Ok, chown to nginx 😉

            BlameDylan it doesn't matter. it needs to create caches and stuff, you can't even write a log file now. Let alone create an error page using a error blade file.

              I know you said you are running everything as ROOT and I know you said this is only a local install. Please keep in mind that depending on which linux distro you are using, there may be some underlying security preventing you from doing what you are doing.

              It is better you run your test in the correct manner you would for a live install.

              @luceos Everything's permissions are now 775, and are chowned to nginx. No success.

              @GOD understood, reverted to nginx user and 775. Still no difference.

                BlameDylan Once you do a recursive chmod all bets are off. I'd suggest wiping the install and re extracting.

                  @Kulga alright, just reinstalled. Everything is owned by the Nginx user with no permissions modified.

                  Additionally, I set my php.ini to display errors, and this is what I get:

                  Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/storage/framework/views/bb70210d87a252556c175ac77e7b5232): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 81
Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/storage/framework/views/f8aebd3f27d63d7f2545b724c2ea9039): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 81
Warning: include(/var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/storage/framework/views/f8aebd3f27d63d7f2545b724c2ea9039): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/vendor/illuminate/view/Engines/PhpEngine.php on line 42
Warning: include(): Failed opening '/var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/storage/framework/views/f8aebd3f27d63d7f2545b724c2ea9039' for inclusion (include_path='/etc/php.d') in /var/www/sub.website.com/flarum/vendor/illuminate/view/Engines/PhpEngine.php on line 42
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                    Since I modified display_errors in my php.ini, I get the error messages above.

                    Toby I also got your packaged from your downloads page, but i got a 403 forbidden reply. That' s because of the lack of index.php?

                        stallone At this point we're getting rather close to the release of the next beta version, which will include some important fixes for installation issues. It might be easiest just to wait for that and start fresh.

                        Hang in there ... it's coming ... 😉

                          9 days later

                          @Dominion @Toby I tried with the Beta 2 and I still get an error. See attached screenshot:
                          Error

                          The commands I ran were:

                          chmod 0755 /var/www/sub.domain.com
chmod -R 0755 /var/www/sub.domain.com/assets 
chmod -R 0755 /var/www/sub.domain.com/extensions 
chmod -R 0755 /var/www/sub.domain.com/flarum/storage

                          They all returned successful. Any ideas?