Getting Error Message On sign up page. Please help!

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting' started by brides, Jan 6, 2009.

  1. brides

    brides New Member

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    After info is entered on signup page and continue is clicked, I get this error:

    Cannot open /usr/local/pem/vhosts/168891/webspace/httpdocs/amember/data/.htpasswd for write. Make directory /usr/local/pem/vhosts/168891/webspace/httpdocs/amember/data and this file writeable for PHP scripts.

    Can you tell me what to do? Thanks
    brides, Jan 6, 2009
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  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    chmod 777 the /data/ and subdirectories.

    David
    davidm1, Jan 7, 2009
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  3. booforum

    booforum Member

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    That still doesn't work for me!
    booforum, Jan 15, 2009
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  4. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Is this is a brand new installation?

    Just to double check,

    1. You have set (and checked after that it saved) that the amember/data directory is set to 777
    2. That all files underneath amember/data are each individually CHMOD to 777 (and double checked)

    You can test this by:

    1. Trying to create a test directory under amember/data
    2. Trying to rename the .htpasswd, .htgroup and .htaccess to something else and running "rebuild database" from within aMember.
    skippybosco, Jan 15, 2009
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  5. booforum

    booforum Member

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    booforum, Jan 16, 2009
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  6. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Awesome. Glad you are up and running again!
    skippybosco, Jan 16, 2009
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