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Changing Permissions


2johnsons

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when I open my site on the home page the very top I get this message on RED

 

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /hsphere/local/home/ejvj69/flawnt.net/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

 

I was reading in the manual that I need to " Reset the permissions on catalog/includes/configure.php to 644" I have no idea what this is, what Im to look for, etc

 

Can someone please also tell me what "chmod" is? becuase Im seeing this word a lot in the forum as Im researching changing the permissions.

 

Thank you

Posted
when I open my site on the home page the very top I get this message on RED

 

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /hsphere/local/home/ejvj69/flawnt.net/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

 

I was reading in the manual that I need to " Reset the permissions on catalog/includes/configure.php to 644" I have no idea what this is, what Im to look for, etc

 

Can someone please also tell me what "chmod" is? becuase Im seeing this word a lot in the forum as Im researching changing the permissions.

 

Thank you

 

chmod is a unix command for changing permissions on files or directories

you can usually change permissions from an FTP program

usually right click on the file name to change permissions.

 

644 means owner: read write, group: read, public: read

 

 

 

For a good writeup on chmod see Wikipedia on chmod

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