Please help

[Guest]

I loaded easy populate and ever since I chmod'd the catalog/includes/configure.php to enter something there, I get an error. I CHMOD'd it back to 444 after the change and still get the error.

 

This is the error:

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/XXXX/public_html/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

 

I CHMOD'd it back to 444 but it still shows the error. How can I get the error to go away?

 

Thanks for the help in advance.

[dave111]

Try CHMODing it via your Hosting panels file manager (instead of FTP)

[Guest]

Awesome!! It worked..thanks soooooooooo much :)

 

Now, can you help me with something else??

 

I am using easy populate, all of my images of my products are on another website that I own, I want to hotlink to save space and in my txt file I have the website address, but problem is..the pictures don't show up because it is automatically looking in the images folder for them. How do I go around that for just the products??

[WiseWombat]

Awesome!! It worked..thanks soooooooooo much :)

 

Now, can you help me with something else??

 

I am using easy populate, all of my images of my products are on another website that I own, I want to hotlink to save space and in my txt file I have the website address, but problem is..the pictures don't show up because it is automatically looking in the images folder for them. How do I go around that for just the products??

You could try changing your catalog/includes/configure.php file for the image directory

 

from this

 

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

 

to

 

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'http://www.yourotherdomain/images/');

[Guest]

that is going to cause problems with ssl . . . better off to just use the bandwidth, most hosting packages now adays account for that

[Guest]

Well, the problem with that is it will not show the other pictures that need to be used with osc. :(

[WiseWombat]

Well, the problem with that is it will not show the other pictures that need to be used with osc. :(

Just transpher all your images from your image folder to the new web sites image directory as no other changes will need to be.

Or if both sites are hosted on the same server Why not run both sites on the same database as clones of each other then the only changes needed will be to the stylesheet and some manual text changes.

Or copy your database directoy and rename it then set up your configure.php files inside your new website to direct to the new database rather than the old one then they will be clones no more.

[Guest]

The only problem with that is I don't want to get penalized with duplicate content on both sites. So, I just planned to put the http address in the images section on easy populate but its not working out that way.