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I have searched for answers and none apply to this particular instance. I get one particular error preventing me from installing CiviCRM in WordPress. I have the latest version of CiviCRM and WordPress. I get the following error under file permissions no matter what I do:

Is the /home/tackletheagenda/public_html/Civicrm/wp-content/plugins/files folder writeable?

The user account used by your web-server - tackletheagenda - needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file: //home/tackletheagenda/public_html/Civicrm/wp-content/plugins/files

I have already verified that the folders were writable. A bug? Other people had this problem on other platforms, but no answers for this problem in WordPress.

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  • It seems there may be a problem with the path of your civicrm installation. My working civicrm installation in Wordpress is in the equivalent of your account at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm. In that directory, there should be a properly configured file called civicrm.settings.php. There should also be a directory called "files" in /wp-content/plugins which should have been created during the installation.
    – peterb
    Nov 9, 2017 at 18:32
  • Full installation info is at this link wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/… and also here at docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/install/wordpress Hope this helps.
    – peterb
    Nov 9, 2017 at 18:39

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The link that is supposed to provide a solution for this is broken...on this page:

https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/install/wordpress/

If you are on a Windows machine and get the message "The user account used by your web-server needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file: C:/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/" even after changing directory permission in Explorer, see:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5056.msg23720.html#msg23720

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Did you verify the directories were writable by testing using php - or checking the permissions? To definitively confirm this is a civicrm bug perhaps put something similar to the below in a file in your web root then visit it in your browser. (Don't forget to remove the file afterwards) Check if the file was created. If it was then this is a civicrm issue - however if not it is a permissions issue.

<?php
file_put_contents("/home/tackletheagenda/public_html/Civicrm/wp-content/plugins/files/test.txt", 'Test');
?>

If it is a permissions issue double check the permission of the parent directories to make sure the web user has execute access to all parent directories

namei -l  /home/tackletheagenda/public_html/Civicrm/wp-content/plugins/files

Will show you all parent directories up to / along with their permissions.

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