this install has not rights to create or update file Data.php

[Francisco Cortes]

I just thougt id share with everyone in case you might encounter this issue
my box is a centos 7, an instance in google cloud
when I finally got install ready to go I got this error:

http://opensis.sourceforge.net/demo/install/step1.php

oddly there was no info on the error online, (or could it be that is being getting deleted porpusely)? hope not.

after playing with chown, chmod and getfacl and setfacl for hours without figuring out why apache (the owner/group of the installation folder and the owner of the process running apache) was not able to write to the installation folder, I luckly ran into this post:

https://blog.lysender.com/2015/07/centos-7-selinux-php-apache-cannot-writeaccess-file-no-matter-what/#comment-3294

turns out that is selinux (security enhanced linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux) the one that was not allowing the write to occur.

after setting up the recommend commands on the post for my installation folder folies, I was back in business with my installation.

Hope this post save you from some grieve.

cheers

[ken martinson]

The broken link is here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210514095604/http://blog.lysender.com/2015/07/centos-7-selinux-php-apache-cannot-writeaccess-file-no-matter-what/

[ken martinson]

This worked for me:
Find out what user is running apache:
ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1
(the user is most likely www-data. It may also be: apache or httpd)

sudo chown -R yourusername:www-data ./opensis
sudo chmod -R g+rw ./opensis
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35711/giving-php-permission-to-write-to-files-and-folders