Title: Fail: wp-config not writable
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fail: wp-config not writable

 *  Resolved [John Parker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpwebcast/)
 * (@jpwebcast)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-wp-config-not-writable/)
 * I am getting the error: wp-config.php is not writable at the end of setup of 
   the staging site. When I click to go to the staging site, it asks me to go through
   the WordPress Installation. I made sure that the folders are writable and compared
   my setup with another website where WP-Staging worked perfectly the first time.
   Can you point me in the right direction of how to make it work?
 * John
 * My website is hosted on a cloud server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/)

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 *  Thread Starter [John Parker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpwebcast/)
 * (@jpwebcast)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-wp-config-not-writable/#post-7059050)
 * Never mind I figured it out.
    Turns out my wp-config.php file was not in the 
   folder with WordPress. So I copied that wp-config file into the WordPress folder,
   started a new Staging site and it worked perfectly.
 *  Plugin Author [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * (@renehermi)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-wp-config-not-writable/#post-7059145)
 * Perfect!. Thanks for the feedback.
 * Regards,
    René

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## Tags

 * [not writable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not-writable/)
 * [wp-config](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fail-wp-config-not-writable/#post-7059145)
 * Status: resolved