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ModX won't install on LAMP

Posted June 12, 2013 7.2k views
I've installed LAMP, configured PHPmyAdmin and uploaded ModX CMS files to my droplet (http://modx.com) and tried to install it. First error was with the time zone. But i fixed it in php.ini Then the rest come. It always says, that directory is not writeble... so for a test, I've set ll the directories permissions to 777. But still on the last step, I have an error, that ModX can't unpack a .zip file with it's contents even when permissions on that .zip and all the dircctories are 777. Any ideas, how to fix this? Thanks.
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kamaln7 June 12, 2013
What's the path to the .zip file it's trying to unpack? Also please paste the output of running the stat command on the .zip file and its parent directory.
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digitalocean-login July 30, 2013
I have the same issue, here's the output of the stat command:

File: `/var/www/core/packages/core.transport.zip'
Size: 2375026 Blocks: 4640 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 1576448 Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2013-07-30 18:23:27.522142075 +0000
Modify: 2013-07-30 16:25:25.322142076 +0000
Change: 2013-07-30 18:23:19.102147512 +0000
Birth: -
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kamaln7 July 30, 2013
What's the output of 
stat /var/www/core/packages/
?
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digitalocean-login July 30, 2013
File: `/var/www/core/packages/'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 1576446 Links: 16
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2013-07-30 18:22:46.310147536 +0000
Modify: 2013-07-30 18:22:29.254148016 +0000
Change: 2013-07-30 18:22:29.254148016 +0000
Birth: -
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kamaln7 July 30, 2013
I recommend asking here so that experienced people can point you to the correct path: http://modx.com/support/
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digitalocean-login July 30, 2013
Anybody trying to do an advanced install (moving server) for modx revo I recommend doing a fresh install instead and then uploading any files specific to your installation eg. /assets, /core/components etc
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orel-s1 August 17, 2013
But still it doesn't work properly. Just doesn't want to
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kamaln7 August 21, 2013
@orel-s1: What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Please explain.
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nikolas.adhiarta February 13, 2014
i'm using modx too so i hope modx can running well in here
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william520054 March 7, 2014
No success for me trying to install the latest 2.2.12 version. Getting the 503 error. First i got it cause of the simple reason that modx requires a empty writable config.inc.php file. So when adding that, the 503 message dissapeared from /, but then trying to run /setup it came back. Thats where i am right now and seem to be a little stuck.

I have added a timezone into the htaccess file as well. Ill be back if i can sort it.
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