HPE

Please can someone help me?

I'm trying to get this to work, but the instructions are very poor.

Here are specific questions taken from the readme.txt file that came with the source code...

1) "...You need to make sure that directory HPE/admin is writable by the
user running the httpd process, it will need to write the configuration
file in there..."

Is that chmod 755, 775 or 777?

2) "...You also need to create directory HPE/xml/feeds and make sure it
is writable by the user running the httpd process..."

Is that chmod 755, 775 or 777?

3) "...A lot of the data is cached into static files so reduce database access.
The default cache directory is HPE/cache and it's subdirectories. You
need to make sure it is writable by the user running the httpd process..."

Is that chmod 755, 775 or 777?

4) "...Then load page HPE/admin/index.php, go through the items, in this order:
- database settings
- site information
- administrator information
- site operating information..."

When I go to the admin URL the page is blank. (This I think, is the most critical issue that makes the code unusable.

Any help would be appreciated.