RE: [Phpgedview-talk] Changing permissions

[John F. <Joh...@by...>]

HI Paul,
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1) Whether you need to change permissions or not depends on how the =
users and groups are setup on your webserver.  When Apache and PHP run =
the PHP scripts, they run as a user on the system.  If the PHP user is =
the owner of config.php then the "-rw-r-r" permissions are sufficient.  =
if the PHP user is in the same group as the file then 664 or "-rw-rw-r" =
would be sufficient.  If the PHP user is not in the owning group of the =
file, then you have to set permissions to 666 or 777 or "-rw-rw-rw".  So =
the answer is that it depends on your system.  When you start PhpGedView =
it will tell you if it can write to the config.php file or not.  If not =
then you will need to set more liberal permissions.
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2) phpBB is a buletin board program and I have no idea why that would be =
of any help in changing permissions.
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Most FTP programs have a way inside of them to set permissions.  The =
command is usually called chmod and takes a series of numbers which are =
a binary representation of the permissions to be set.  So usually you =
would run a command like "chmod 777 config.php"
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Most hosts also have some sort of control panel where you can change =
permissions.
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You can also put the following code in a PHP file that you can try to =
run to set permissions.  Many hosts also disable the chmod function in =
PHP so the file may not work, but it is worth a try.  Just paste the =
code between the ---- into a new text file called setpermissions.php.  =
Then upload the file to your server and point your browser to it.
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--John
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--------------- Start of setpermissions.php
<?php

chmod("./config.php", 0777);
chmod("./index", 0777);

print "Permissions changed";

?>
----------------- end of setpermissions.php


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From: php...@li... on behalf of Paul =
Ramshaw
Sent: Fri 5/21/2004 3:58 PM
To: PGV help list
Subject: [Phpgedview-talk] Changing permissions


1)  The first question is whether I really need to change permissions.  =
The permissions for the index folder are currently: "drwxr-xr-x".  The =
permissions for config.php are currently: "-rw-r-r".  Are those the =
correct settings, or do I need to change them?
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2)  I have an economy-plan website at GoDaddy.com.  Their help people =
were pretty vague on how to change permissions on files or folders =
(except to urge me to upgrade to their Deluxe plan!).  The only =
suggestion they had was to download the phpBB program from =
www.phpBB.com.  If I have to try to change the permissions, do you think =
phpBB would help?
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Paul Ramshaw