Guest Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I am struggling to install the program. I ahve changed the configure.php files to 777 but i've been told that my server won't allow a php file with a permission of 777 to run, should it still install with 755 or 711. regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥FWR Media Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I am struggling to install the program. I ahve changed the configure.php files to 777 but i've been told that my server won't allow a php file with a permission of 777 to run, should it still install with 755 or 711. regards. 0755 should be fine in this case. Ultimate SEO Urls 5 PRO - Multi Language Modern, Powerful SEO Urls KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags KissER Error Handling and Debugging KissIT Image Thumbnailer Security Pro - Querystring protection against hackers ( a KISS contribution ) If you found my post useful please click the "Like This" button to the right. Please only PM me for paid work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Unless you're on a strangely configured system, files should be 644 (or 444 for read-only access). 755 won't necessarily do any harm, but it's not needed. 777 is almost always a bad thing. 711 is unusable (obviously you don't understand permissions). http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=327395&view=findpost&p=1443272 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥FWR Media Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Unless you're on a strangely configured system, files should be 644 (or 444 for read-only access). 755 won't necessarily do any harm, but it's not needed. 777 is almost always a bad thing. 711 is unusable (obviously you don't understand permissions). http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=327395&view=findpost&p=1443272 He was talking of installation .. the configure.php files need to be writeable. Ultimate SEO Urls 5 PRO - Multi Language Modern, Powerful SEO Urls KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags KissER Error Handling and Debugging KissIT Image Thumbnailer Security Pro - Querystring protection against hackers ( a KISS contribution ) If you found my post useful please click the "Like This" button to the right. Please only PM me for paid work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 If PHP/Apache run as "owner", 644 should be sufficient (a few oddball systems are set up to require "execute bit" on PHP files: 755). If PHP/Apache run as "group", 664/775 would be required. Only if PHP/Apache run as "world" would 666/777 be needed. All explained in the post I linked to. 644 is writable during installation under normal circumstances (PHP/Apache run as "owner"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥FWR Media Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 If PHP/Apache run as "owner", 644 should be sufficient (a few oddball systems are set up to require "execute bit" on PHP files: 755). If PHP/Apache run as "group", 664/775 would be required. Only if PHP/Apache run as "world" would 666/777 be needed. All explained in the post I linked to. 644 is writable during installation under normal circumstances (PHP/Apache run as "owner"). MrPhil The OP was having trouble installing, this added discussion about permissions is irrelevant. Simply put with osCommerce you make the configure.php writeable for the install and following you lower the permissions (often to 444). It doesn't matter whether the file may or may not have been writeable at a lower permission on the OPs server we are just trying to help this guy install by giving him permissions that WILL allow the install to work .. this is 0755/0777. Ultimate SEO Urls 5 PRO - Multi Language Modern, Powerful SEO Urls KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags KissER Error Handling and Debugging KissIT Image Thumbnailer Security Pro - Querystring protection against hackers ( a KISS contribution ) If you found my post useful please click the "Like This" button to the right. Please only PM me for paid work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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