ice-man Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 I'm getting this error on my OSC main page: Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/visolu2/public_html/shop/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file. I checked this file and and did chmod, but the message persists. Any ideas?
Guest Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 what did you chmod the file settings to? they need to be 644 at a minimum
ice-man Posted June 28, 2004 Author Posted June 28, 2004 It was 644 already, and I changed it to 444, but the message was still there, so I changed it back to 644, and the message is still there. It was working fine before, but I had to re-install my OSC and this message started to appear after the re-installation.
Paul Burke Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 I got the same error today also, although I had not changed or loaded anything on my site since last time I looked at my homepage (and it was fine then) . The configure.php file was set at 644. I changed it to 444 and the error went away. But it is very strange. I think it may have something to do with changes made by my site host this weekend, but I am not sure. Hope it is not opening up unseen holes in security. Makes me paranoid.
Paul Burke Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 UPDATE: found an osCommerce Knowledge Base article that helps... Able to Write to the Configuration File
ice-man Posted June 28, 2004 Author Posted June 28, 2004 Hi Paul, I too suspect that my webhost did something that introduced the error. My webhost is lunarpages, btw. I looked at that link to the KB, but I'm confused. The article tells you to do: chmod 777 /path/to/osCommerce/includes/configure.php Why would you set it to 777? Isn't that even more unsecure than 644? Doesn't make sense.
Paul Burke Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 Yeah, I just assumed it was a typo and it meant 744 or something less. I cannot imagine why 444 didn't work for you. Of course 644 is not working on lp for me either, only 444, which is a small blessing I guess. I may email support about it, because I've probably forgotten to set something else correctly .... Whatever has changed on the box I'm on at LP (maybe SuPHP) is still giving me fits-- mostly it was my fault at first for not changing every 777 to 755 or less (stupid me loaded up pics and forgot to chmod them). Now that's all fixed (mostly), but another problem arose-- cart empties itself anytime customer clicks on "Home", and, half the time when customer clicks on "continue shopping" it takes them back to the previous product's page rather than the overall products page. I tried to replace the shopping_cart.php with a backup and that didn't work, plus it brought up the dreaded "page link!" error. If I find any help at all that may help you also, I will post it here.
Paul Burke Posted June 28, 2004 Posted June 28, 2004 Think I found my cart clearing error-- my homepage currently immediately redirects visitor to cart folder, so I guess it starts a new session or whatever on the redirection command... or something like that? So luckily it seems to have nothing to do with the LP changes or chmod stuff. I thnk half of what confuses me is similarly or same named files in different directories of OSCommerce ... being new, I probably need to find and read some hierarchy faqs or knowledge base articles to get the flow of things :)
ice-man Posted June 28, 2004 Author Posted June 28, 2004 Hey Paul, I changed it to 444 and it worked. It wasn't working before because I made a stupid mistake. The Admin folder also has an "includes" folder, similar to the one on the root folder, but everything in it is related to the admin section. Hope that helps a bit.
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