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Your LimeSurvey version: 5.6.0
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Survey theme/template: default
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Hi everybody,
after upgrading to 5.6.0 we are facing some strange behaviour of our webserver which was running well till upgrade.
We are getting this error:
CException: Application runtime path "/var/www/LIMESURVEY/tmp/runtime" is not valid. Please make sure it is a directory writable by the Web server process. in /var/www/LIMESURVEY/vendor/yiisoft/yii/framework/base/CApplication.php:294                   
Stack trace:                                                                                                                   
#0 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/vendor/yiisoft/yii/framework/base/CComponent.php(152): CApplication->setRuntimePath()                  
#1 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/vendor/yiisoft/yii/framework/base/CModule.php(520): CComponent->__set()                                
#2 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/vendor/yiisoft/yii/framework/base/CApplication.php(166): CModule->configure()                          
#3 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/application/core/ConsoleApplication.php(44): CApplication->__construct()                               
#4 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/vendor/yiisoft/yii/framework/YiiBase.php(132): ConsoleApplication->__construct()                       
#5 /var/www/LIMESURVEY/application/commands/console.php(63): YiiBase::createApplication()

the folders: upload,tmp,application/config are on 755 owned by root:apache. all others are on 555, as described in LS installation process. I tried also for the tmp folder, 777 , but without luck.
I'll be happy if anybody can point me in the right direction.
Thanks a lot.
jim

jimmi4u wrote:

after upgrading to 5.6.0 we are facing some strange behaviour of our webserver which was running well till upgrade.
 

From which version did you upgrade to 5.6.0?
Which PHP version is being used?

The error message indicates a problem with the runtime path.
Permissions are often correct.
I recommend checking the configuration file for invalid paths and options.
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Optional_settings#Runtime_path

It could be a bug in LS 5.6. Maybe a newer version could help.
 

Hi jelo and thanks for your reply,
I updated from 5.4.6 and am on php8.0. the runtime path is not changed, maybe I can think on changing it... I'll have a look.
btw. atm there is no newer version on github...
thanks,
jim

The commits on Github do not show any corrections for that issue.
If the content of the configuration is unchanged, I recommend opening a bug report.

Same error when updating from v6.1.x to 6.3.6.
Now we get the error:CExceptionApplication runtime path "/opt/bitnami/limesurvey/application/runtime" is not valid. Please make sure it is a directory writable by the Web server process.
We use the AWS EC2 AMI: Limesurvey by bitnami.Using WinSCP and PHPMyAdmin, we downloaded the whole limesurvey-root directory and did a dump of our database.
I downloaded the newest LS version (3.6.3) from [url] community.limesurvey.org/downloads/ [/url]
I copied the following files from download of the previous version (i believe it was 6.1.x) to the unpacked directory of the new version
/application/config/security.php
/application/config/config.php;
/upload directoryAfter the new LS-directory was setup, I uploaded it to my aws EC2 instance at the same place.