Title: Activation failed
Last modified: September 12, 2018

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# Activation failed

 *  Resolved [torbenmogensenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torbenmogensenco/)
 * (@torbenmogensenco)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-failed-14/)
 * I get this error when activating the plugin – could you let me know where its
   trying to create the dir, so I check my permissions.
 *  mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/……./plugins/woo-license-keys/vendor/10quality/
   wpmvc-core/src/psr4/Cache.php on line 40
 * Thank you – looking forward to trying this plugin out.

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 *  Thread Starter [torbenmogensenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torbenmogensenco/)
 * (@torbenmogensenco)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-failed-14/#post-10692325)
 * OK – tracked it down – turns out cache is written to the wordpress installations
   root directory, which then must have write permissions.
    I changed owner to www-
   data:www-data – but don’t really know if that’s a good idea.
 * Anyway – everything looks really good 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [10Quality](https://wordpress.org/support/users/10quality/)
 * (@10quality)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-failed-14/#post-10697546)
 * The plugin uses WordPress MVC framework which creates the following file structure
   at the root of your wordpress setup:
 * /wpmvc/logs
    /wpmvc/files
 * If you wish you can turn of write permissions of the root directory and manually
   create the /wpmvc folder and give write permissions to that folder instead. That
   should work to.
 *  Thread Starter [torbenmogensenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torbenmogensenco/)
 * (@torbenmogensenco)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-failed-14/#post-10698028)
 * Thank you for your reply – will adjust my permissions.

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 * Last reply from: [torbenmogensenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torbenmogensenco/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-failed-14/#post-10698028)
 * Status: resolved