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    Checking if manager/includes/config.inc.php exists and is writable: Failed!
    I am using:
    XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP2
    Firefox 2.0
    PHP version: 5.2.0
    MySQL version: 4.1.21
    Everything else worked! I set the file according the the README-en.txt to 666 permissions. And i renamed it from config.inc.php.blank --->> config.inc.php I tried this several times and also tried diff. permission settings like 777 for example.

    Any help would be appreciated!
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      And there are no other failures?

      Is the config.inc.php file open in anything?
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        No, nothing is open that is on the ftp.
        and no other failures.

        Here is the checklist it gave me:
        Setup has carried out a number of checks to see if everything’s ready to start the setup.

        Checking PHP version: OK!

        Checking if sessions are properly configured: OK!

        Checking if assets/cache directory exists: OK!

        Checking if assets/cache directory is writable: OK!

        Checking if assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php file is writable: OK!

        Checking if assets/cache/sitePublishing.idx.php file is writable: OK!

        Checking if assets/images directory exists: OK!

        Checking if assets/images directory is writable: OK!

        Checking if assets/export directory exists: OK!

        Checking if assets/export directory is writable: OK!

        Checking if manager/includes/config.inc.php exists and is writable: Failed!

        For new Linux/Unix installs, please create a blank file named config.inc.php in the manager/includes/ directory with file permissions set to 777.

        Creating connection to the database: OK!

        Checking table prefix `*******`: OK!

        Unfortunately, Setup cannot continue at the moment, due to the above error. Please correct the error, and try again. If you need help figuring out how to fix the problem, visit the Operation MODx Forums
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          Checking if manager/includes/config.inc.php exists and is writable: Failed!
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            Ryan, he’s already said that in the first post.

            Quote from: tctransporter at Jan 25, 2007, 06:47 PM

            No, nothing is open that is on the ftp.

            FTP? That doesn’t really fit with "XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP2" as your host platform.

            1) Is XP what your machine is running or what your hosting provider is running?

            2) If you change the permissions of the blank config.inc.php to 777, and then quit FTP and reload FTP, are the permissions still 777? I have seen some FTP setups claim to have changed permissions when they have not.
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              Are you using Windows as webserver? Windows-machines don’t understand chmodding. So you can’t set the 777-value.
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                Sorry, my machine is xp but my host is linux server and i use a third party ftp software and it set the permissions correctly and i used 666 and 777 and they dont work. My host is zendurl.com for free and that might be the probem but i doubt it.
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                  Free... seems like you get what you pay for... wanna make a large wager that it’s the hosting configuration? wink
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                    Well, I’m not sure if it is because a config. problem. Wouldn’t I get any other errors?
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                      It worked! I changed the Manager and Installs folder to 777 and it worked! However i got errors after it installed about directories not being open, etc. but everything said installed or OK!
                      Here are the errors when i type in myurl/manager, where it is located.

                      Warning: include_once(quotes_stripper.inc.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 85

                      Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ’quotes_stripper.inc.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/’) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 85

                      Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (.:/tmp/:/home/zendurl/public_html/thefirewall/) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php on line 191

                      Warning: include_once(settings.inc.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 141

                      Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ’settings.inc.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/’) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 141

                      Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php:85) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 144

                      Warning: include_once(version.inc.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 147

                      Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ’version.inc.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/’) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php on line 147

                      Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php:85) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/config.inc.php on line 41

                      Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/index.php:85) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/config.inc.php on line 41

                      Warning: require_once(/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/sniff/phpSniff.class.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/browsercheck.inc.php on line 2

                      Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ’/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/sniff/phpSniff.class.php’ (include_path=’/home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/’) in /home/zendurl/public_html/tctrans3/manager/includes/browsercheck.inc.php on line 2

                      Please help if you can,

                      Thanks