# Permission error when installing through web wizard **URL:** \ **Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\ **Created:** [May 3, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/permission-error-when-installing-through-web-wizard/11217 "2025-05-03T22:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seekerluke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/seekerluke/32/6845_2.png) [@seekerluke](https://forum.gitea.com/u/seekerluke)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/permission-error-when-installing-through-web-wizard/11217/1 "2025-05-03T22:24:25Z")
I’m installing Gitea on a headless Raspberry Pi 5. I’ve followed all the steps carefully in these two parts of the documentation: > **[Installation from binary | Gitea Documentation](https://docs.gitea.com/installation/install-from-binary)** > > All downloads come with SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL support, and are built with > **[Run as a Linux service | Gitea Documentation](https://docs.gitea.com/installation/linux-service)** > > You can run Gitea as a Linux service, using either systemd or supervisor. The steps below tested on Ubuntu 16.04, but those should work on any Linux distributions (with little modification). However, when I try to run `gitea web`, and then go to that URL to enter config information to finish installation, I get met with this error: The app data path is invalid: unable to create the APP\_DATA\_PATH directory: “/usr/local/bin/data”, Error: mkdir /usr/local/bin/data: permission denied I’ve tried the following: - Using the default SQLite setup - Using MariaDB, making sure I have the correct config - Using the default user for `gitea web` - Using `sudo su - git` to log into privileged user before running `gitea web` - Changing the default paths in the webpage from `/usr/local/bin/data` to `/var/lib/gitea` `APP_DATA_PATH` appears to be part of the config file that gets written to during installation, so I don’t think I can edit that. I’m out of ideas. Any help is appreciated.