mellyC Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 This is my first post having discovered OsCommerce yesterday - what a great project! I am really looking forward to getting this up and running and would appreciate any help I can get on the following... Upon successfully installing (finally) and clicking catalog, I received this warning message at the top of the page: Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /www/clientweb/au/t/trainingways.com.au/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file. Using WS FTP I have right-clicked on the configure.php file >chmod (UNIX). A window pops up with settings that equate to 644 (as I understand it) ie Owner: Read & Write; Group: Read; Other: Read. Is there something I can do to fix or get rid of the Warning? Please help (I am an absolute beginner, so please do not assume too much!) Quote
Guest Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 You're doing the right thing. chmod to 444. -jared Quote
back2magic Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 (edited) You're doing the right thing. chmod to 444. -jared This is what I've been trying, but the permission automatically reverts to 644. Any ideas? Edited December 7, 2004 by back2magic Quote
Guest Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 If it reverts, then the tool you're using probably isn't really changing the file permissions. I know that problem exists with cPanel's file manager - - that's why I use FileZilla to change file permissions. -jared Quote
back2magic Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 I've tried using the hosting provider's ftp and Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro. Neither seem to do the job :wacko: Quote
Guest Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 It's possible that you're not the owner of the file. Odd, but possible. I'd call your host. -jared Quote
back2magic Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 It's possible that you're not the owner of the file. Odd, but possible. I'd call your host. -jared <{POST_SNAPBACK}> VERY odd! Surely though, if I can access my ftp client, then it's my file? Quote
Guest Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 not necessarily. You may have read and execute rights to it, but not write rights to it. All in all, odd behavior, I'd call. -jared Quote
back2magic Posted December 8, 2004 Posted December 8, 2004 not necessarily. You may have read and execute rights to it, but not write rights to it. All in all, odd behavior, I'd call. -jared <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok thanks for your help Jared. Quote
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