Magento installation issues

Question

I developed a website using wordpress hosted with godaddy, I further wanted to include a magento solution with it by installing magento as a subfolder of the root. in the process of installing I get this errors. Im not sure im doing it right

Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\app\etc" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\customer" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\dhl" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\dhl\logo.jpg" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\downloadable" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\custom" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\custom\ok.gif" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\original" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\original\ok.gif" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\system" must be writable. Path "D:\Hosting\11968835\html\magento\media\xmlconnect\system\ok.gif" must be writable.

Answer 1

this is a permissions issue. I'm not a windows guy, but when I get this error, I run

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 550 pear
chmod 550 mage #for magento 1.5+

Then sometimes depending on the filesystem, I have to change the perms on Media and Var:

chmod -R 777 var  chmod-R 777 media

Obviously you don't want to leave 777 on there like that, but you can start there and work backwards. Find the same folders on windows and change those perms and it'll solve your issue.