Question regarding new installation

[clear-design]

Describe the problem/question

Hi there, I'm trying to install a new instance of PrivateBin on veryseriousmessage.com. I've read through the installation instructions, but I get the feeling I'm missing something important.

After extracting the source in my destination directory, I notice there is no data directory, though I see this referenced everywhere. I've made a data directory with 640 permissions, but I still receive the error "Could not create paste: server error or not responding"'

What am I missing? Are there additional installation instructions somewhere?
Thanks

Did you use the FAQ section?

• Yes, I have read the FAQ and I found no solution/answer there.

What you did?

1. Extracted source code
2. Created conf.php file identical to sample
3. Created 'data' directory, chmod 640
   ...

What happens

"Could not create paste: server error or not responding"

What should happen

Note is successfully stored and link is supplied

Additional information

No response

Server address

https://veryseriousmessage.com

Server OS

No response

Webserver

No response

PrivateBin version

1.7.4

Browser and version

No response

Local operating system and version

No response

Issue reproducibility

No, I cannot reproduce it on https://privatebin.net.

[elrido]

Check your php processes error log to find the reason for it not being able to create the paste.

Likely it is a permission problem: The data folder should get created for you by the software and be owned by the user that the php process is running under.

You may not have created it using the correct user and if you set the flags to 640 you only allow your user to touch to it and no user to execute the folder, which is required to create files within it. The folder needs to have at least the flags 700 (user-read-write-and-executable) and be owned by the user the php process runs as. On Debian and Alpine Linux derivatives that is often the www-data user - check your distros documentation or your service configuration files or use ps to see what it runs under.