On a clean install of Drupal 8, when I try to change the file_public_path variable in my settings.php to something else than sites/default/files (eg: just 'files' in the root), the installer won't continue. It keeps giving the error
"The directory sites/default/files does not exist. An automated attempt to create this directory failed, possibly due to a permissions problem."
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In D7, I could just change this variable to another path without any issues.
Any ideas?