Won't install on localhost

[romancos]

I was going to make local installation to test hotaru but hotaru just won't install constantly complaining about cache folder not writtable:

unpacked into /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2
stat /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/cache
File: `/var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/cache'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 804563 Links: 2
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Context: system_ubject_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0

apache error_log:
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/index.php on line 583, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2
PHP Warning: fopen(/var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/smartloader_cache.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/libs/extensions/SmartLoader/smartloader.class.php on line 265, referer: http://localhost/install/index.php?d...E&csrf=&step=2

This is so frustrating, no selinux alerts of whatoever, admit I blamed it first, it just won't go nowhere and cache permissions being 0777

[PuckRobin]

Maybe your php is in safe mode? Check from php.ini that safe_mode = Off

[romancos]

no it is not, that is really driving me crazy

[PuckRobin]

As the referer in the warnings does not include the subdirectory hotaru-1-4-2 maybe you are using the wrong installation path. This is wrong: http://localhost/install/install.php and this is right:

http://localhost/hotaru-1-4-2/install/install.php

[romancos]

no, the server root is set to /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2 so localhost/install opens installation page, it sets up database but just can't write anything to cache directory, and I'm out of ideas...

install/index.php line 583 is:

mkdir(CACHE . $dir);


I'd just made install script print what it was doing and here is:

checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/debug_logs/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/debug_logs/
checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/db_cache/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/db_cache/
checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/css_js_cache/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/css_js_cache/
checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/html_cache/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/html_cache/
checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/rss_cache/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/rss_cache/
checking where dir exists at /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/lang_cache/
trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/lang_cache/
Can not write to the cache folder. You may need to change the permissions to this folder and files within it, before Hotaru can start.

so I created test.php to try tocreate test subdir to /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/cache and with the same Permission denied error. Normally I'd blame selinux, but it would complain in case of violation and selinux is silent as grave too... Any ideas.

PHP 5.3.8 safe_mode = Off; apache 2.2.21; linux fedora 16 x86_64

[romancos]

Well, I had solved it. My initial suspect - selinux was guilty of this headache. For some readons crucial things for apache on fedora16 were disabled. You man need to run getsebool to find out your selinux settings for apache

sudo getsebool -a | grep httpd

I have following option on (since it's my design box and not available on the internet, I'm not worried about security, I have these set on:

allow_httpd_anon_write --> on
allow_httpd_sys_script_anon_write --> on
httpd_can_sendmail --> on
httpd_unified --> on
httpd_builtin_scripting --> on

execute

setsebool httpd_option on|off

to turn on or off some options. What I don't understand is why selinux didn't sent alerts as usual. Some weird policy update perhaps.

[PuckRobin]

trying to create /var/www/hotaru-1-4-2/install/../cache/debug_logs/

There is something wrong here. Hotaru should try to create cache folder under root, not under /install. And what about those /../'s there? You are trying to show the root relatively with ../ and at the same time using absolute paths. How is that so? I think you have a path setting problem.

BTW, can you install another software, e.g. Wordpress?

Edit: Ok, at the same time you wrote that you solved it.

[romancos]

/../ is step out of install into cache/_cache_dirs/ this is all correct. Problem was with linux fedora16 selinux, disalloving apache to write anything into cache folder, even though its permissions were 0777.