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<p>Drb0566: permission denied for my moodledata directory</p> <hr /> <div>Hello,<br /> <br /> I'm new to moodle and I just installed version 1.9. Everything went well, but I'm having problems with my data files location. I get this message when I log into my homepage:<br /> <br /> <br /> Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home/content/d/r/b/drb0566/html/moodle/lib/setuplib.php on line 167<br /> ERROR: You need to create the directory /data/moodledata with web server write access<br /> <br /> To the best of my knowledge, I have /data/moodledata with web server write access.<br /> <br /> Do i manually set up specific sub-directories in the moodledata directory?<br /> <br /> my config settings are like this:<br /> <br /> $CFG-&gt;dirroot = '/home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxx/html/moodle';<br /> <br /> $CFG-&gt;dataroot = '/data/moodledata';<br /> <br /> CFG-&gt;admin = 'admin';<br /> <br /> $CFG-&gt;directorypermissions = 02777;<br /> <br /> <br /> Should i adjust any default settings on the setuplib.php file?</div>

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