l am facing a similar problem. However l am not very experienced with moodle. When l try to delete to a topic or any object from , as the admin user after turning editing on, l get the "error/file_not_writable"
These are the specs of my moodle instance
The moodle paths are as follows
/var/www/moodle/moodledata
/var/www/moodle/moodlesite
/etc/php.ini
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
l have ensured that the permissions on : /var/www/moodle/moodledata are correct ( 777), and the folders are owned by the apache user
Apache writes logs on:
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/error.log"
The logging path for PHP configs are as follows:
log_errors = On
error_log = /var/log/httpd/php-errors.log
Whenever l try to delete an object on moodle, or to duplicate an object , l get the "error/file_not_writable" on the frontend. l don't see any trace of this error on the log files for apache or PHP. The /var/log/httpd/ folder permissions have also been changed to 777 in desperation.
l read through https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=165833 and other posts, but l can't seem to find a solution to this. Please help with pointers. l need to know exactly
- which log file is not writeable, where moodle is trying to write to
- l also need to be able to see this error in detail on the log file(s)