On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:46:03 am Technicalbard wrote:
> OK - newb here (in more ways than one).  I'm trying to get going on an
> Ubuntu VM (inside VirtualBox) and I installed Django via synaptic.
>
> The problem comes when I try to start the tutorial:
>
> mor...@morgan-laptop:~/www$ django-admin startproject mysite
> Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/morgan/www/mysite'
>
> I made sure that I have ownership of the /www folder (as opposed to
> root having ownership), but that didn't make a difference.

What's the output from each of these commands: (all at the command prompt, one 
at a time)
  ls -dl /home/morgan/www
  ls -dl /home/morgan/www/mysite
  whoami
  touch /home/morgan/www/TESTFILE

After the last one, does the file /home/morgan/www/TESTFILE exist?

-- 
Aaron Maxwell
http://redsymbol.net/

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