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New Install - can't locate config file

January 14, 2012 10:59am

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  • #1 / Jan 14, 2012 10:59am

    jcowen

    66 posts

    Hi,
    I’ve installed EE many times before - but never had this problem before ...

    Trying to install a brand new set up of 2.3.1.

    Everything’s uploaded and file permissions correct as per your User Guide. But when I try to access domain.com/admin.php - I get the error: Unable to locate your config file (expressionengine/config/config.php)

    The file’s definitely there with permissions 666.

    We’ve got several other EE sites running off this server so I don’t think it’s any server issue.

    Progress on the site is pretty much stopped until this can be resolved so I hope someone can make a suggestion quickly 😊

    Thanks
    -john

  • #2 / Jan 15, 2012 7:29am

    Rob Allen

    3105 posts

    Is the path to the system folder correct in admin.php?

  • #3 / Jan 15, 2012 8:26am

    jcowen

    66 posts

    I literally just figured this out ... File permissions on config directory were 666. Seems they needed to be 757 - so it was my server after all (oops).

    I don’t remember having to change anything from the suggested installation settings before, but guess I must have done!

    Thanks for your help.

  • #4 / Jan 15, 2012 9:19am

    Sean C. Smith

    3818 posts

    Mekonta,

    glad to see you were able to work this out on your own. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

    Sean

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