ERROR: Create settings.inc file

[gskidmor]

I'm installing prestashop on my local server and it keeps failing on the last page when it's attempting to create the settings.inc.php file.

 

I've run the following commands to ensure proper setup, all within document root:

 

chown -R www:www *   (user where the files are stored)

find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;  (I tried 755 and 775, but neither worked)

find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

 

I verified that /etc/php.ini has safe mode off, magic quotes disabled, url fopen on, etc

 

 

I'm assuming i'm missing something simple, but I'm not sure what. I've tried 1.5.6.2, 1.6.0.11, & 1.6.0.12 and I get the same error for all 3 versions.

 

As I'm doing a POC, I've installed 4 other e-commerce/shopping cart software packages and those others have installed flawlessly.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[parsifal]

Hello gskidmor.

 

Since you have console access to your server, I'm assuming you are probably on a Linux or Unix-like VPS or dedicated server.

 

Recently I had a similar problem on my VPS with inexplicable failures of the installation script. It was solved by rebooting the VPS (ofc, I tried to restart the PHP and web server services first, but this didn't make any difference).