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@szabesz I've installed LAMP already - this is (i think) about the interaction between PW and the server... or something along those lines. 

@thetuningspoon no worries - i was just reading those instructions then they vanished

@renobird no problem It seems i haven't been prepared! 

If you could link me to a suitable guide on what to setup though that would be appreciated, as I've never actually setup a database before D: 

Then I can try with the details made.

BTW - I can't launch mysql from the command line on the server unless I use sudo, I'm not sure if this means anything or not. 

Thanks

@renobird from the page "If the database does not exist, we will attempt to create it", this implies that it should work? And in the setup guide id didn't go through setting up a database for use with processwire I don't think. 

OK cool though - so I need to create a database (anything specific about it?) 

@LostKobrakai yes this is what i thought... So this access is a problem then isn't it? I don't know why the access isn't there? I've followed the guide, is there something that I should check here? 

Thanks

i've done nothing except setup LAMP then go through the processwire install up to this point. 

I thought this would setup the db, I can't find a guide on this part. I don't know what these errors mean. 

I don't know if this is useful 

@thetuningspoon no i didnt - i installed mysql on the server etc and set a password when I did that, but I've not set one up for the PW install. 

I thought that this page is meant to handle that? 

@Mike Rockett thanks - I don't even know if the DB exists yet - shouldn't it create it if it doesn't? 

 I should just be able to enter some random name for the DB Name field and PW will set it up? 

That's not working... 

thanks

@pmarki thanks - i'm not sure how to do this though? AFAICT the local host and port should be correct? 

http://imgur.com/sJHp186

I can't access mysql on my server just as the user... but I can access it if I use sudo.

http://imgur.com/a/7blve

thanks @pmarki, how do i know which to use there? 

I'm not sure that I really follow this page;

http://imgur.com/a/hCxqg

I've created a database when setting up the server, so I'm presuming that this
is what's being asked for here?

The page linked for getting setup 

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-processwire-cms--cms-25509
doesn't really mention anything about these fields.

After trying to use the user name on the server, and the password that I entered
when setting up the mySQL to start with I got the following error (so I had
filled in "DB Name"={some name that I thought up }, "DB user" = {name of user on
server}, "DB pass" = {pass i set up for mySQL});

http://imgur.com/a/cgFKq

After this i tried using

db name; {whatever}
db user; {name of user on server}
db pass; {password for user on server}

This didn't work either, so I'm not sure what I'm meant to put here.
 

2 minutes ago, szabesz said:

I see. So you gave r/w permission to "other", in other words to anybody, so probably that is why it does not complain.

yes - but if i set permissions to 660 it doesn't work 

•  /site/config.php must be writable. Please adjust the server permissions before continuing.

23 minutes ago, szabesz said:

You mean 600, right? If so, that should be considered to be secure. If others than the owner can manage to write files set to 600 [rw-------], then it does not matter too much if it is 400 or 600, I suppose.

No 006 !

I'm not sure why it's working this this though

@szabesz thanks - i'm still not sure though. Because the permissions are not related to user or group it's the 'other' it that makes the difference to me. 

So If i have permissions set to 

chmod 006 config.php

It works alright, but this isn't what it should be i think

thanks

@szabesz no i hadn't seen that , thank you. I'll have a look now

777 seems excessive - is there something that I'm missing here?

This is a print out of the /site content;

```
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 6 geot geot 4096 Sep  9 13:30 .
drwxrwxr-x 8 geot geot 4096 Sep  9 13:17 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 geot geot 4096 Sep  6 10:10 assets
-rwxrwxrwx 1 geot geot 1548 Sep  6 10:10 config.php
drwxrwxr-x 3 geot geot 4096 Sep  6 10:10 install
drwxrwxr-x 2 geot geot 4096 Sep  6 10:10 modules
drwxrwxr-x 5 geot geot 4096 Sep  6 10:10 templates
```

I'm sure that I shouldn't have to have permissions so high, but I'm pretty new
to this.

Here's a shot of the setup that I'm currently going through;

http://imgur.com/a/WkhAX

You can see that the error (for site/config.php) is no longer there with these
permissions, but they still 'feel' wrong.

Thanks
 

adrian just read it  

this command returns

```
geot@ubuntu-512mb-nyc3-01:/var/www/html$ php -i | grep -i --color gd
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gd.ini,
gd
GD Support => enabled
GD headers Version => 2.1.1
GD library Version => 2.1.1
gd.jpeg_ignore_warning => 0 => 0
```

If there's any other info i can give to make this post more complete just say.

Otherwise this seems to be resolved now 

http://imgur.com/a/4vrPT
 

Edit - this is sorted now. 

I think the restart was what helped

 > Did you restart apache after running apt-get?

No, I've just run 

sudo systemctl restart apache2

though.

> What about the php5-gd package? 

I'm not sure - I'm running php7 so I'm not sure why I would want this package?

If I try and install this using `sudo apt-get install php5-gd` I get an error as
follows though

```
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-gd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'php5-gd' has no installation candidate
```

cheers
 

i'm getting a "Fail: GD 2.0 or newer" warning message from a processwire checks...

I've tried to update with; 

`sudo apt-get install php-gd`. 

Refreshing the check message throws the same error up though... I'm running `PHP
Version 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2`.

Here's a screenshot of the error that I'm referring to

http://imgur.com/a/erDEk
 

thanks Robin - I've sorted it now and I plan on updating this post. 

Note - I've not set this up, I'm not experienced, I'm probably omitting much
relevant information as a result so this post will be a bit of a work in
progress. The answer may be on the forum here - If it is I can't tell for lack
of experience (I've looked).

I cannot for the life of me get an install to work and I've tried a lot, and
I've asked others who're also struggling but I'll try posting here before
another CMS as I've heard it's nice.

Info about the server : https://gist.github.com/65086fbc7b5dd03abd0f0461b9c0ec8b

I'm using the `stable` version of Processwire.

My `htaccess` file is working - you can test here http://rightangle.space/ and
click on the admin page to see the internal server error.

Here is the htaccess file https://gist.github.com/3b805b8ab3c7978aca90a6e39773da00

Here is the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file https://gist.github.com/2b2f2518ce7df4af4739413bc967cf56

Here is the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf file https://gist.github.com/400cc958ff32dfb6df80693fd8531f08

Here's the output of  tree -fa /var/www/ https://gist.github.com/a3569becd9889b4b05c4f0d0a8a561d7