Chmod 777?

[impetus]

I've come to about the fourth or fifth screen in the installation ... And I got this error.

 

I think I have to change chmod, how do I do that?

 

Thanks :)

 

"The following error has occurred:

 

 

The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set.

 

Please perform the following actions:

cd /home/impetus/public_html/catalog/includes/

touch configure.php

chmod 706 configure.php

cd /home/impetus/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/

touch configure.php

chmod 706 configure.php

 

If chmod 706 does not work, please try chmod 777.

 

If you are running this installation procedure under a Microsoft Windows environment, try renaming the existing configuration file so a new file can be created."

[ddp]

I've come to about the fourth or fifth screen in the installation ... And I got this error.

 

I think I have to change chmod, how do I do that?

 

Thanks :)

 

"The following error has occurred:

The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set.

 

Please perform the following actions:

cd /home/impetus/public_html/catalog/includes/

touch configure.php

chmod 706 configure.php

cd /home/impetus/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/

touch configure.php

chmod 706 configure.php

 

If chmod 706 does not work, please try chmod 777.

 

If you are running this installation procedure under a Microsoft Windows environment, try renaming the existing configuration file so a new file can be created."

 

Marshall

 

Permissions are what various users are allowed to do to files.

They can be set using a ftp program.

They allow users to read, write or execute files. Usually the configure.php files are set to 444 which means all users can only read the files. 777 allows all users to read write and execute which is not the normal setting for the confgure.php files.

 

I'm not sure why you are being asked to change the permissions to 706 or 777.

 

Have you finished the install?

Verify the existence of the confgure.php files in hte catalog/admin/includes adn catalog/includes folders.

 

I'm not sure if this helps or not i'm not too expert in the installs of osc as my server has an automatic install of oscommerce as part of its hosting package.

 

On a side note you might want to post a more descriptive heading for your posts and you will surely get more expert or at lease more feedback.

[impetus]

Thankyou Michael ...

 

I changed the configuration to "777" and now the installation went through.

 

Thanks again,

 

Marshall.