I cannot get past the authenticating stage of the XOOPS install (checking permissions of folders and files to make sure they're world writable).
The problem is, I'm unaware of sourceforge offering to allow you to make folders world writable... I even tried logging in via ssh to run links but it didn't work.

Also the permissions of everything is 777 (chmod -R 777 * - ls -l confirms this).

How can I install XOOPS on sourceforge webspace?

Thank you for your time.

I am also having this exact same problem. Using WinSCP through the shell to change the properties worked fine for me with previous versions of XOOPS but thus far with 2.2.3 no matter what I set the priv's too the installer tells me they can't be written to.

yeah, I checked your site... Your error was exactly the same as mine.

Which version of XOOPS was the one that worked previously for you?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1364620&group_id=41586&atid=430840

nope... tried all versions and none of them work

$ cd html
$ scp -r . hkjkjh@shds/htdocs
$ ssh shell.sf.net
> cd jnskf/htdocs
> chmod -R 777 *
> exit
$ links http://sfsite.net

and it always comes up with the perm's error for all available versions of XOOP.

Ok, I have found the problem.


I made this and saved it as test.php

$ scp test.php genjix@shell.sf.net:/pathto/htdocs
$ ssh shell.sf.net
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 genjix]$ cd /home/groups/n/ni/nime/htdocs/
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$ touch textfile_name.txt
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$ chmod 666 te
test.php textfile_name.txt
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$ chmod 666 textfile_name.txt
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$ cat textfile_name.txt
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$ ls -l textfile_name.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 genjix nime 0 Nov 23 07:32 textfile_name.txt
[genjix@sc8-pr-shell1 htdocs]$

After doing that, loading test.php gives
Warning: fopen(textfile_name.txt): failed to open stream: Read-only file system in /home/groups/n/ni/nime/htdocs/test.php on line 6

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/groups/n/ni/nime/htdocs/test.php on line 9

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/groups/n/ni/nime/htdocs/test.php on line 12


... It seems sourceforge is not allowing write access to my own files :'(

Ok, I have just got an email back from sourceforge staff.

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Support Requests item #1364799, was opened at 2005-11-23 09:46
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Category: Project Web Services
>Group: First Level Support
>Status: Pending
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Amir Taaki (genjix)
>Assigned to: Erich Zigler (zigler)
>Summary: Project web services issue

Initial Comment:
Hello, it seems that I am unable to write to files
using php even when that file has rw file permissions.

I am guessing that this is only within ssh (the file
permissions), but it is crucial as I am trying to
install a content management system (XOOPS).

Thank you for your time and excellent site :)

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>Comment By: Erich Zigler (zigler)
Date: 2005-11-23 15:46

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Greetings,
On 2005-08-15 we made a change to our project web servers
remounting all home directories to read-only for security
reasons. This change was originally slated for 2005-02 but
was postponed until 2005-08. More information may be found
in our Site Status:

( 2005-08-11 13:17:39 - Project Web Service ) As per the
previous announcement in the sitewide newsletter sent on
2005-02-28, the project home directories on the project web
servers will be mounted read-only on 2005-08-15 at 9:00 AM.
We highly recommend moving to a database storage mechanism
(the MySQL server we provide) or the new directory tree
provided for all data writing needs from the project web
servers. This operation is described in the following site
document:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_i
d=1#permissions

The change was made on Monday morning:

( 2005-08-15 10:53:57 - Project Web Service ) Inquiries
regarding Internal Service Errors should be directed to the
administrator for the project managing that project web
site; some web-based applications (maintained by individual
projects) will malfunction due to the read-only remount of
the project group directories; data needs to be moved to the
project MySQL database, or the /tmp/persistent directory
structure as per
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_i
d=1#permissions

If you have any further questions please let us know.

Thank you,

Erich Zigler
First Level Technical Support, SourceForge.net

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They do not allow any web programs to write to the file system they are hosted on...

Why does XOOPS not offer something like phpBB -
when you install phpBB, if it cannot write to the filesystem its hosted on it will send you a config.php file which you must re-upload.

XOOPS could do the same sort of thing (if its several files, just have a selection of buttons saying
download config.php
download install/somefile.php .etc)

Anyway would be nice to hear from the XOOPS developers on this.

tnks for finding all of that out. any ideas of what to do now?

Hi,

I have http://mutis.sourceforge.net/ site down for a month (just in a beta stage :( )

The solution from the SF staff is move writable files to tmp/persistent folder.

I move templates_c, cache, mainfile.php and uploads. Then a do a simbolic link for this folders and files.

But I have this error: Warning: main(../mainfile.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/groups/m/mu/mutis/htdocs/install/index.php on line 201

I don't can pass the screen where say "saving configuration data" and the error is

Warning: copy(../mainfile.php): failed to open stream: Read-only file system in /home/groups/m/mu/mutis/htdocs/install/class/mainfilemanager.php on line 52


I don't have experience in Linux or PHP, so I'm stuck here...

Has anyong installed this on a sourceforge site?

hhttps://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=41912&forum=7&post_id=213963#forumpost213963

perhaps this thread should become a sticky.

Installing XOOPS on SF Servers however may have other problems..

Xoops 2.2's SEND MAIL & MultiMenu would give problems.

Xoops 2.0's MAIL SETUP would be blank. MultiMenu would give problems.

These are what I'm facing and still unable to find its cure :)