Profile installation and Git

[Joss]

I am having a problem with one of my own profiles when installed using the Github download.

It is the same trouble others have had of not being able to login to the admin once installed "appear to have been forged"

Checking permissions on folders things look ok...

However, if I install using the local github folder version, it installs perfectly fine.

This is being installed on a local server running Virtualmin - normal 644/755 permissions and so on.

Is something happening with GitHub, or perhaps the various gitattributes/gitignore files or something?

I noticed a thread where someone was having a similar issue with Soma's blank profile.

I really don't know much about Github.

Joss

[bcartier]

I ran into this when working with a git repository - I had mistakenly git-ignored the cache and session folders rather than their contents. So, although I had set 777 permissions to config.php and recursively to the assets folder, the /assets/sessions and /assets/cache folder didn't actually exist. I created them and set permissions and all was fine, except my feeling a bit silly ;-)

[Joss]

Interesting....

The gitignore file was automatically created by the windows github prog, so I didn't actually add anything to it.

I have removed gitignore and gitattributes for the moment and will try again later

Joss

[ryan]

Also make sure that you've got a /site/install/files/ dir in your profile, even if it's empty. I'll remove this dependency from install.php soon though. 

[Joss]

Yep, got one of those.