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Heya lovely people,

I’ve moved a copy of EE 2.3.1 from one server to another. Everything works, however when changing settings in Admin > General Configuration, I get the following error:

Your config.php file does not appear to have the proper file permissions. Please set the file permissions to 666 on the following file: expressionengine/config/config.php

Both my FTP-client and SSH tell me the permissions on config.php are in fact set to 666. In addition, I am in fact able to change settings through the General Configuration page. So EE throws the error, but does change the settings, proving (I suppose) that config.php in does have the right permissions.

Any ideas on how to get rid of the error? Thanks a million! :D

In addition, here are the results from the EE-server wizard. I figured this might help shed light on the issue.

Have you tried SSHing in and using ‘ls -l’ to check who has ownership of the file?  In some server situations, the owner needs to be the FTP username for the site to modify files eg use ‘chown user:group config.php’ to change ownership.

I had the same problem. In my case the issue was with the SELinux type. It was set to httpd_sys_content_t but needed to be httpd_sys_rw_content_t.

You can set this with:

sudo chcon -v --type=httpd_sys_rw_content_t /path/to/your/config.php