I just installed 1.5 for a new site and during installation process, i had to hand code the configuration.php file and upload it manually. Now when i have set up joomla and tried to edit the global description and keywords, i received the following error: An Error has occurred! Unable to open configuration.php file to write! Have i done anything wrong. This was my first installation of joomla so i have a feeling that i have somehow messed it up ....have not installed any plugins or components....please help
no nothing wrong.. as long as you named the file correctly and copied the same exact code it shoudl be fine. what you need to to is give it proper permissions in order to allow joomla(apache or other webserver) be able to write to that file. you can try like chmod 777 configuration.php but i wouldn't suggest that as it's a security leak. if you have access and can do this it would be better: chown apache_group_here:apache_user_here configuration.php chmod 644 configuration.php this should give the websever enough permissions to write to your configuration.php and not have securtiy leaks. note: for apache_group_here:apache_user_here you would usually put something like: nobody:nobody or apache:apache depends on the way your server was setup.