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[Shane Bishop <sbishop AT trinitybiblecollege.edu>]

Ok, I'm stupid. I figured it out. What I had done is this. I untarred 
the install on my local machine, and then scp'd it over to the 
webserver. I then copied it over to the web data directory. Somewhere in 
there, files (likely hidden ones) got lost, and so I had a broken 
install right from the beginning. i'm not sure that it makes any sense, 
but once I actually untarred it on the server in the correct location, 
it worked like a charm. Thank you all for your help.
Shane

John Joseph Bachir wrote:
> > > > I get:
> > > >
> > > > must be writable by the webserver.
>
> > i'm using mysql 4.0.24, php 4.4.0, all on ubuntu breezy shane
>
> The "writable by server" message is supposed to specify which directory 
> is the problem. I've only seen it failing to include the directory in 
> the message on windows installations. But I haven't experimented much 
> with the moved-directory setup. (which, for a big setup serving hundreds 
> or thousands of users such as it seems like you are doing, i would 
> HIGHLY recommend you NOT do).
>
> the short answer and short-term solution is, run `chmod -R 777 *` on 
> your entire tree of lyceum files.
>
> the longer answer is to make sure these directories are writable by the 
> web server, as specified in Installation.txt:
>
> src/lyceum/
> src/lyceum/wp-comments-posts.php
> src/lyceum/wp-content/blogs/
>
> Let us know how that goes. I'll look into the problem more on my end.
>
>
> John
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