[Tikiwiki-users] Help, can't run 1.6 when 1.5 worked fine

[John L. <jl...@ar...>]

Can someone point me in the right direction to troubleshooting why 1.6
won't work where 1.5 worked fine?

I'm running a RH 7.3 derivative (Mitel's SME 5.6u4) server
php-4.1.2-7.3.4
apache-1.3.23-14es1

I've installed 1.6 where the 1.5 files were in the html directory.  The
permissions for all the files were unchanged (as in they worked with
1.5).  I even changed the permissions for then entire html directory to
777, with the same results:

May  5 10:48:06 gluon httpd: PHP Warning:  Smarty error: problem writing
'templates_c///%%-58/%%-584454252/tiki.tpl.php.' in
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/prospace-tst/html/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on
line 999
May  5 10:48:06 gluon httpd: PHP Warning:  unable to create file
templates_c///%%-58/%%-584454252/tiki.tpl.php because No such file or
directory in
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/prospace-tst/html/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on
line 1518
May  5 10:48:06 gluon httpd: PHP Warning:  Failed opening
'templates_c///%%-58/%%-584454252/tiki.tpl.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/share/php:lib/pear') in
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/prospace-tst/html/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on
line 1118

The templates_c looks like:
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     prospace     4096 May  4 22:38 templates_c

And inside it, I have the following:
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     prospace    26430 May  4 22:33 license.txt
-rwxrwxrwx    1 www      prospace     8393 May  4 22:38 preferences.php

I can't even run tiki-install.php... Let alone anything else tiki
related.  Regular pages serve fine from this html directory...

From what I gather, these errors are because PHP won't write to
templates_c, even with full permissions turned on...

So, if this is a PHP restriction, where else can I look that will change
this?  What should I look for?

Help, I really want to get 1.6 running, and don't want to be forced to
use only 1.5 in the future.

Any help/ideas appreciated!

John Lewis