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Give Joomla Installation File Write Privileges

Posted on October 4, 2014

I can’t install extension into my joomla site because there’s no write privileges. I’m using serverpilot with ubuntu 12.04.



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You need to grant Joomla permission to write to /srv/users/serverpilot/app/joomla:

sudo chown -R serverpilot:serverpilot /srv/users/serverpilot/app/joomla

Replace joomla with your app’s name.

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