Failure to do this check causes step 6 of the installer (AllowOverrideChecks) to fail with a misleading message. The following patch to head will fix this:
--- a/installer/steps/ReadWriteAccess.php
+++ b/installer/steps/ReadWriteAccess.php
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ class ReadWriteAccess implements IInstallStep
is_writable(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../core/Modules") &&
is_writable(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../core/Cache") &&
is_writable(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../web/application/cache") &&
+ is_writable(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../web/application/logs") &&
is_writable(dirname(__FILE__)."/../../web/modules");
$directoriesCheck->text = $directoriesCheck->result
? "All the directories have the correct permissions."
Failure to do this check causes step 6 of the installer (AllowOverrideChecks) to fail with a misleading message. The following patch to head will fix this: