Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not writable
Today I ran into the same error.
After a while i got the idea.
On any linux box such as Red Hat, Cent OS, fedora and Co there is a pretty good likelihood that SELinux is enabled and enforced.
First of all you should check the directory and file permissions. Being at least accessible and readable to the web server - most often apache. Dirs and files should be owned by apache:apache.
The SELinux is quite consequent. I therefore ran into this issue after relabelling the system.
In case that after permission setting the web server still does complain about
„$CFG->dataroot not writable“
look at the SELinux labels of the dirs and files in $CFG->dataroot.
They are displayed with the CLI
ls -lZ /full_path_of_dataroot
All labels should be
apache apache unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t:s0 4096 1. Dez 14:21 cache
The httpd_sys_rw_content shows that the dir or file is writeable.
In case this is not given execute
sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /full_path_of_dataroot
This will change the file context recursively to the type httpd read/write.
Reload the webpage.