It might be necessary to make the Magento directory itself world writeable. You need to go the the directory that contains Magento, and change the permissions on the Magento root directory itself.
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It might be necessary to make the Magento directory itself world writeable. You need to go the the directory that contains Magento, and change the permissions on the Magento root directory itself.