Warning Message at top of page

[Guest]

I'm getting the following message at the top of my store:

 

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

 

The permissions are set at 706, and after doing a search here at the forums, I also tried 705, but neither made a difference. What do I do to get rid of this?

[bluepony]

I believe the permissions should be 644.

[Guest]

Okay, I tried 644, and the error message is still there. If you'd like to see it yourself, it's here: http://www.tiny-treasures.org/store

[Spice]

Try to add this to a new .php file.

 

<?php

chmod('/home/tinyt/public_html/store/includes/configure.php', 0444);

?>

 

then access it online at your site.

 

Remember to backup before.

 

 

//Spice

[241]

try setting to 444 read only state

[Guest]

I tried both, and neither worked. I'm not sure what to do from here. I should also mention that osCommerce was installed directly from my hosting Cpanel.

[241]

then maybe your host does not give the user the permission to set permissions below 644, if you change the permission on a file to 444 then refresh is the file 444 or has it changed

[Guest]

It's now fixed! The first time I attempted to chmod to 444, I wasn't at my own computer, and had to attempt it from my cpanel's ftp program. That didn't work, apparently, but I just tried it again, using my ws_ftp program, and it DID work. The warning message is gone now.

 

Thanks!