Dashboard not found about automad HOT 3 OPEN

Hi, it is difficult to tell what could be the issue here without more details about your environment. At least the kind of web server is important.

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Hi

Sorry I was sure I had added that.

Raspberry Pi Zero
Pi OS Lite (32 bit) Debian (all updated)
Apache2
PHP 7.3
Followed these steps https://automad.org/getting-started/system-requirements

Both git pull and download the zip file.

Followed this for folder permissions https://www.internalpointers.com/post/right-folder-permission-website

UPDATE: I did "chmod -R 777" to the /var/www/html folder and it is working. I have always been told not do do that, so I'm still confused.

Thanks

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Hi, yeah it is correct that you should not do this in production. However this issue actually has nothing to do with this particular CMS but instead applies to all web applications. Every application that is writing files needs permissions to do so. I guess you are using PHP as a module for the Apache and in order to make that work, Apache needs permissions to read and write files. It is actually enough to change the owner for the installation directory to the Apache user recursively without giving other users writing permissions.

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