I’ve had eGroupware installed on my site before, but removed it several months ago. Now, I’m trying to install it again, with a completely new installation - new directory/folder name, new database, etc. The basic installation works fine, but when I get to the settings page, I keep getting a message that the backup folder doesn’t exist.
If I change the location of the backup folder (which is by default /var/lib/group/default/backup) to any other location (outside the document root), it still says the same thing. If I make it inside the document root, it tells me I don’t have permissions for that.
Even creating a new folder outside the document root, using SSH and setting permissions, ownership, etc… nothing works.
A search discovered this is a common issue and I can’t seem to make it work correctly.
After multiple attempts to fix it, eGroupware won’t even accept my user ID and password, so I gave up, trying to do a new installation on a different domain I own on the same server. Same issues happened there, too.
How do I make this work? Does eGroupware write some mystery file to the server preventing duplications or other installations? It’s the community edition, as a test prior to purchase.
Please help…
