Install instructions

[aixelsyd]

The install instructions have a couple problems.

Step 4
> 4. chmod 755 /templates, /templates_c, /backup, /avatar/user_uploaded,
> config2.php, /libs/dbconnect.php and /libs/options.php

/avatar/user_uploaded is /avatars/user_uploaded

I would also suggest dropping the commas and adding ./ to the to the directories. instead of just / for safety sake... It also makes it easy to cut-n-paste.

Step 5 should either be or included (I didn't check config.php before the change)

chmod 777 ./libs/dbconnect.php

Without that in step 7 it reports that file isn't writeable.
"../libs/dbconnect.php is writable: No"

Step 8 corrects the permissions on libs/dbconnect.php so it must have been a slip.

Thanks!

Jason

[kbeeveer46]

Thanks for the correction on avatars/user_uploaded. I'm sort of confused about the rest of your post and the dbconnect file. At first it needs to be 755 (777 for some servers) so the Pligg installer can updated it with your database details. Once the installation is over you want to put it back to 655 so other people can't modify it.

[aixelsyd]

In the install instructions you have

chmod 755 /templates, /templates_c, /backup, /avatar/user_uploaded,
config2.php, /libs/dbconnect.php and /libs/options.php

doing a / on a unix file system references the root as the point of reference. Doing a ./ references the current directory that you are in.

So writing it out like this:

chmod 755 ./templates ./templates_c ./backup ./avatar/user_uploaded
config2.php ./libs/dbconnect.php ./libs/options.php

Without the commas and the "and" it will allow someone, since hopefully they are in that directory already, to just cut in paste without a lot of modification. Making less chance of a typo or doing something they may not want to do.

In the install instructions you should include a note as to what your trying to accomplish with the permissions. That way for those with systems one way or the other they'll be able to adjust. Like you said there are differences and this is beta

I hope you're not getting the wrong idea out of me either. Just trying to help in whatever way I can. It was early when I started in on this. I was excited to see it on digg and jumped into this with both feet.

Thanks!

Jason