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In the installation, during pre-checks, it gave me an error that not all folders were writable. This is because I have a folder named "stats" that is generated by ISPConfig that I am using. This folder is protected, but also not used by CMSMS.

Only workaroud for my was to chmod the folder with SSH.

All sites on my server has this folder as default, and has never been any problem to CMSMS v1.X installs.

Is it realy required to have write access to all subfolders, even those CMSMS v2 never uses?

If you got multiple webhoster-specific folders in your root directory (so do I), maybe it's worth a thought to install cmsms in its own subdirectory. Otherwise things might get mixed up easily...

I have changed the intallation assistant so that
a: Any FILES in the installation directory itself must be writeable by the php process.
b: All FILES and directories within a preset list of directories off of the root (lib,modules,admin,plugins etc). must also be writable.

This should solve problems like the stats directory etc. but still cover 90%+ of the cases where permissions are screwed up and allow you to still install without error.