what are the hell are permissions and how the hell do I set them up

[e-merchant]

Apologies but I have spent half and hour on this already and I am a really frustrated!

In the documentation it says

 

Reset the permissions on /catalog/includes/configure.php to 644 (if you are still getting

the warning message at the top set configure.php to 444 which is read only - this happens

on some servers that have been updated for security reasons).

 

what the hell does this mean, how do I configure it??

 

sorry but I am totally new to web design and have only been studying MySQL and PHP for 3 weeks.

 

I think there should be a newbies forum on this.

 

thanks

[♥Vger]

There's usally a link to a File Manager in your Web Hosting control panel - and you can use this to reset permissions on folders and/or files.

 

Vger

[e-merchant]

thanks for replying :D

 

I am working locally with XAMPP v 1.5.3a

 

* Apache 2.2.2

* MySQL 5.0.21

* PHP 5.1.4

* phpMyAdmin 2.8.1

* XAMPP Control Panel Version 2.3

* FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.16c

 

could you explain to me what a permission is and where EXACTLY i have to change it?

 

thanks again :D

[e-merchant]

ok, I didn't actually need to do what you suggested, after an hour of searching all I had to do was change the files to 'read only'

 

I hope this helps other people!

[rabbitseffort]

that IS changing permissions