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I was on 1.8.1 and upgrading to 1.12.1, then later higher. I am on PHP7 now so I must upgrade because of so many issues. The problem I am running into while upgrading is, the install page keeps saying

Directory not writable! /home/xxxx/public_html/tmp/templates_c
Please correct by executing: chmod 777 or set writing permission for php process, exiting!

After untaring the files I chown -R www-data:www-data * and then chmod 750 tmp/templates_c

That didn't work. So i broke down and set 777 on it and it still gets the same error. It makes no sense to me. The folder is writable.

Any help is appreciated.

You might get some extra information by adding ?debug=1 to the upgrade.php url. (assuming CMSMS 1.12)

/install/upgrade.php?debug=1

Thank you. Very helpful. There was a drive issue. Dropped to read only right after untarred the files and set the permissions so it couldn't write.
Thank you for the help!

How do I set the topic to [solved] ? There is no edit button for me. Thanks.

Stryker777 wrote:How do I set the topic to [solved] ? There is no edit button for me. Thanks.

Done for you