I have a shared hosting account on a Windows 2003 server.
It features:
PHP 5
MySQL 4

So my XOOPS site quit allowing people to register one day. I came to this site for help and it had been hacked. So I ripped it down and am now doing a clean install of XOOPS 2.2.3 Final. Well I have hit a brick wall. When I install it tells me that:
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But then two screens later at the top of the page I get:
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and then below that it says:
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I am going to call my ISP and check the file permisions but even if they are wrong, this is very confusing. The installation should not tell me that all my permissions are good to go and then crap out two steps into the process.

Well basiclly what happened is when it checked file and directory permissions, it came back with and told me: no errors detected

In realty, the file and directory permissions were wrong. I am not sure which ones but after going through and setting the following to world writeable: uploads/, cache/ and templates_c/ and the file mainfile.php

It worked. The Xoops-installation-file-and-directory permissions checker is faulty. Don't believe it.

Now that everything is installed (I installed 2.0.13.2 and upgraded to 2.2) I am once again noticing that XOOPS is misreading the permission on mainfile.php"
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I am 100% positive that mainfile.php is read-only yet I still get this message. Now I am going to figure out how to remove it because it is annoying as hell.

I have hit this same brick wall....argh.
Did you ever have any luck getting this figured out?