Item12985: Incorrect warning about the "root directory" being nonwriteable: It's not the "root directory"

A freshly installed Foswiki warns in configure:

/var/www/html/virtual_host_root_directory - Warning: Could not write to the Foswiki root directory. This is not necessarily a big problem, but can cause issues installing some extensions that write files into the server root. 

This is confusing.

In my case,

/var/www/html/virtual_host_root_directory

is NOT the Foswiki root directory, it is the root directory of virtual host.

The Foswiki root directory (underneath which are bin etc) is actually

/home/wikis/my_foswiki

and it corresponds to the URI

httpd://thevirtualserver.org/wikis/mine

The warning message should probably cater to such unusual settings.

-- DavidTonhofer - 05 Aug 2014

Could you provide more details on your installation file system structure, Also, what are the *Dir settings in your configuration. Please run grep Dir}\ = LocalSite.cfg, We can try to resolve this for Foswiki 1.2. Configure has had major changes, so I have no idea if you'll still get this error. Also this might give us some insight on how to bootstrap your system. (Foswiki 1.2 will run without a LocalSite.cfg on conventional installations). Thanks.

-- Main.GeorgeClark - 06 Jan 2015 - 00:48

Hi George, Sorry for the late reply. I am installing the Foswiki 2.0.1 now. Do you still want data from the old installation?

-- DavidTonhofer - 24 Sep 2015

No problem. If the issue is resolved in 2.0, then we can close this as no action, otherwise, any new insight on issues with 2.0 would be helpful.

-- Main.GeorgeClark - 24 Sep 2015 - 18:35

Damn, I think we can close this. Just installed 2.1.2 (excellent btw, congratualtions -- nary a problem installing tough there was a snag when migrating)

-- DavidTonhofer - 3 Sep 2016