It used to be in the instructions. I took it out when I had it automatically check to see if it was writable. But now that there is no configpal.php script in the package I can't check it to see if it's writable untill it's created or something. Perhaps chmod'n the pals directory during setup would suffice. Do keep it set to world readable/writable so it can be edited when needed.
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