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/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---