Unusual error upon setup

Using Debian 9.8 with Apache, MariaDB and PHP 7.0

I have done this a few times now and each time I get a different error. The latest one is the following

User-agent: * Disallow: / User-agent: Googlebot Allow: /ical_server.php

This appears just above the “NEXT” button on the installation screen (Step 2 of 2 - Configuration) All the fields are filled in, and I have read the permissions about 100 times and pretty sure I have them all ok. But I can’t seem to get past this bit.

The directories are owned by www-data:www-data (which is what my apoche2 runs as), and all directories are chmodded

I used the following commands in the installation directory using SSH

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data
sudo chmod -R 755 .
sudo chmod -R 775 cache custom modules themes data upload
sudo chmod 775 config_override.php 2>/dev/null

Although I had to manually create an empty config_overrride.php file because it didn’t exist (is this right?) I was wondering if this was an issue?

I am hoping I have simply overlooked something or just misread something in the setup. As a result of just being tired and not reading properly.

The last entries in the install log are as follows

2019-04-23 02:12:19…/custom directory and subdirectory check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…cache directory and subdirectory check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…/module directory and subdirectory check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…/upload directory check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…/zip check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…PCRE version check passed
2019-04-23 02:12:19…installerHook: Info: custom/install/install_hooks.php not present, no custom hooks to execute
2019-04-23 02:12:19…php.ini location found. /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
2019-04-23 02:12:19…Outputting HTML for System check
2019-04-23 02:12:19…No Errors were found *************
2019-04-23 02:12:19…installerHook: Info: custom/install/install_hooks.php not present, no custom hooks to execute
2019-04-23 02:12:21…installerHook: Info: custom/install/install_hooks.php not present, no custom hooks to execute
2019-04-23 02:15:53…installerHook: Info: custom/install/install_hooks.php not present, no custom hooks to execute
2019-04-23 02:15:57…installerHook: Info: custom/install/install_hooks.php not present, no custom hooks to execute

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

You’re missing a " ." in your chown command, it should be

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .

Cheers for the input. I think that was a mistake from me pasting the code from my server.

None the less I ran the command again this time with the full stop and still get the same result. I checked and all files/directories are definitely owned by www-data:www-data, and chmodded correctly (although I have some suspicions about the subdirectories, so going to revisit the install guide once again.

I do notice now that the error comes up immediately on the first page in configuration. This time on the very top left corner. It wasn’t doing that before I reran the chown command.

Ok Solved it.

I worked out that the text displaying came from the config_override.php file. So I deleted that file, and installation worked perfectly.

config_override.php is created automatically (and correctly…) by the installer. I don’t know why you tried creating it manually but that was a misstep.

Anyway - I’m glad you got it working now :slight_smile: