BlameDylan I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me thus far. However, I did a complete wipe of my VPS and installed Debian 8. After proceeding through the steps, I successfully installed Flarum. Whoo-hoo! So, this is indeed a CentOS 7 issue.
BlameDylan @BlackSheep However, I did think it was weird how I tried to install Vanilla Forums on CentOS and I also could not get passed the permissions page. So something was either wrong with my setup, or there is some kind of bug in CentOS.
justshipit I am having exactly same issue - "The directory is not writable. Please chmod this directory and its contents to 0775." although I made it writable. Running LEMP (Ubuntu 14) droplet on Digital Ocean with nginx and php5-fpm.
Kulga justshipit This was already done. My guess is SELinux was causing the issue. Also, after switching to Debian the issue was resolved.
justshipit Kulga that did not work for me. I moved from Ubuntu LEMP to Ubuntu LAMP and I also resolved it. Seems like php5-fpm doesnt like Flarum that much 🙂 Now I use Apache and is all good.
justshipit UPDATE: So everything was running good using Ubuntu LAMP and I did test update like I am updating the Flarum to latest version, followed instructions on the website (http://flarum.org/download/) and after I got back to the issue with permission again. I tried to change permission but without result so now I need to whip out whole droplet and start again. Trying to figure out what is the issue.
ktretyak My PHP installed as Apache module, so my solution: chown apache:apache -R [path to the flarum root folder] See https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1513-permission-problem-with-flarum-v0-1-0-beta-3
Kmz Im using Ubuntu 14.04 and with the same problem, I dont know what to do. I cant change to Debian 8.
Kulga Kmz Please start a new thread with your OS version, errors you're getting and what you've tried.