Hello all,

I'm running apache2 on my by Dapper Server box. I wanted to get wordpress up and running, so installed all of the required packages (mysql, php4, etc), but when I try and use the wordpress, I get the error:
I have a feeling that this means wordpress doesn't have the rights to access/modify any files under the /var/www/ folder. Heck, I don't even have rights to do this. I always have to sudo to do anything in that folder. Is there anyway to change this so that wordpress can use this folder properly? Also, any hints on the setup of that folder would be great.

Vital_101

Just test it doing sudo chmod 777 /foldername

That will be insecure though, but test it to see if it works and if it does we'll go from there.

That worked, but is there a better way to do this so that it's more secure?

Try chmod 711.

chmod 101:

Chmod changes the permissions on a file or folder.

7 = Read Write and Execute on said object

4 = read only
2 = write only
1 = execute only

If you wanted to do read and execute 4 + 1 = 5

First column is owner, second is group, third is user.

Or maybe 755 if that doesn't work. If you don't give read on the folder then people can't browse the directory tree on the site, eg they get the error Cannot list virtual directory or somesuch. But if you give execute then it still can run the php/html files.

Or I'm completely wrong but eh.

Play around with the permissions until you get it to work with the least amount of permissions.