error in installation - WEB-INF/jforumLuceneIndex does not exist

[galatia iatraki]

Hi,

i have downloaded the stable version 2.1.9 and uploaded in my server. i start following the installation steps and got the error:
JForum is not able to create or write files to the directory /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/phrForum/WEB-INF/jforumLuceneIndex. Please give full write access to it before continuing.


However, the folder /WEB-INF/jforumLuceneIndex does not exist, i checked again the zip file that i have downloaded and is not there.

[Tim Moores]

Yes, you need to create that directory yourself and make it writable.

Also, you really should use the latest version of JForum (2.4.1), which can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jforum2/files/?source=navbar. 2.1.9 has a bunch of bugs and security holes which will not get fixed. JForum2 on SourceForge has fixed those issues, and also added a number of new features.