ZackRuybal

So what's funny is I tried that a few times, but I guess some kind of odd permission change I made at some point made it so that was something I could feasibly do. That did fix it though, so cheers!

So, I've installed WHMCS many, many times, but this time it's throwing a fit. I find this particularly strange since I've had WHMCS running on this box before as well. I downloaded a fresh copy of 7.7.1 today, uploaded it to the server, set the permissions with chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/whmcs (obviously the path is obfuscated, I used the actual one in the command), yet I get the error that the configuration file is not writable. I've tried just switching it to chmod 777, that didn't work either, I also tried 755. Nothing has worked thus far. This is what the LS output is, you can clearly see that www-data owns the directory and all files inside of it: total 2716 drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 23:01 . drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Apr 6 22:53 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 admin -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 62251 Apr 6 22:56 affiliates.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1878 Apr 6 22:56 * -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 40784 Apr 6 22:56 announcements.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 6953 Apr 6 22:56 announcementsrss.php drwxr-xr-x 7 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 assets drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 attachments -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 13911 Apr 6 22:56 banned.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 579253 Apr 6 22:56 cart.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 769224 Apr 6 22:56 clientarea.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 0 Apr 6 22:56 configuration.php.new -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 70311 Apr 6 22:56 configuressl.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 33161 Apr 6 22:56 contact.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 68840 Apr 6 22:56 creditcard.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 crons -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1509 Apr 6 22:56 dist.loghandler.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 81975 Apr 6 22:56 dl.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 40610 Apr 6 22:56 dologin.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 19070 Apr 6 22:56 domainchecker.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 downloads -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 47397 Apr 6 22:56 downloads.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 feeds drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 includes -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 11937 Apr 6 22:56 index.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 67422 Apr 6 22:56 init.php drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 install -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 116025 Apr 6 22:56 knowledgebase.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 lang -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 8768 Apr 6 22:56 link.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 16480 Apr 6 22:56 login.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 16099 Apr 6 22:56 logout.php drwxr-xr-x 13 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 modules -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 30235 Apr 6 22:56 networkissues.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 11857 Apr 6 22:56 networkissuesrss.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 oauth drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 pipe -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 18462 Apr 6 22:56 pwreset.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 47718 Apr 6 22:56 register.php drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 resources -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 29161 Apr 6 22:56 serverstatus.php drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 status -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 77420 Apr 6 22:56 submitticket.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 44849 Apr 6 22:56 supporttickets.php drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 templates drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:56 templates_c -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 7512 Apr 6 22:56 unsubscribe.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 81586 Apr 6 22:56 upgrade.php drwxr-xr-x 52 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 22:57 vendor -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 14887 Apr 6 22:56 viewemail.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 36378 Apr 6 22:56 viewinvoice.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 51264 Apr 6 22:56 viewquote.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 94502 Apr 6 22:56 viewticket.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 16436 Apr 6 22:56 whois.php The permissions for the folder overall are also set to www-data: drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 6 23:01 obfuscated.obfuscated.com I'm running nGinx with PHP 7.2, all up to date as well. There are no errors in the nginx error.log either. I'm super confused, any help would be appreciated.