Hi Ross,
I am installing Gibbon on a new Centos 7 VM.
I have installed everything but keep getting “The directory containing the Gibbon files is not currently writable, so the installer cannot proceed.” at installation step 1.
A nudge in the right direction will help me alot.
I did the same set-up about a year ago, but somehow seem to have missed something, somewhere.
Thx
Jean
Jean,
I suggest you look at using ls -l to list your web root directory (most likely /var/www or similar) to check the file permissions of your Gibbon directory. You could then use chmod to adjust those permissions.
Hopefully this is enough of a nudge : )
Ross
well… what secure permission we need for each gibbon folder, by now i still use chmod 777 bcus i still try gibbon on my localhost, btw is gibbon have API? and where i can get the full documentations of it, thanks for advance 
Hi @creatorbe
Setting permissions to 0755` is a good starting point for anything that’s not your localhost. There isn’t an API in the RESTful sense, but the full documentation can be found on the Gibbon website: https://gibbonedu.org/support/ including post-install & server config, links to the github repo, and development roadmap.
Hi
I am trying to install gibbon on windows 7, I am using Xampp control panel version 3.2.2. I have successfully launched the installation on my browser but i cannot get past the second step of installation, i get this error “SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.” please help anyone
Ike, that is an interesting error, and not one I have seen before. I presume that this is an SQL error, to do with configuration in Xampp. Have you tried to establish a MySQL connection from a client (such as https://dbeaver.jkiss.org) to see if it will accept a connection at all? This would be a good way to see if the error is with Gibbon and MySQL, or purely MySQL. Good luck!