CHMOD – What Should It Be?

  • Messing with things to get them writable and not writable, I was suddenly unable to access my WordPress (1.5). I was able to get to the admin when I CHMOD to 777 but I don’t want that for EVERYTHING.

    I know 1.5 now requires .htaccess to be R/W, and index.php and others…but is there a list of what needs to be set for what? I don’t want to leave the whole site set to 777 as that is rather exposed.

    Thanks.

    Lorelle

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  • go down from 766 to 755, see if main dirs still work.
    Most wp-files should be 664 or 666 (latter for writable)

    Thread Starter Lorelle

    (@lorelle)

    Thanks, that should work for now. I’ll change the others down to 664 or 666 on an individual basis when I get things set up and working.

    I’m confused…. I’ve been through my entire wordpress directory chmoding as directed on the Default 1.2.2 Files and Permissions doc. (All files mentioned there except wp-config.php – is that my problem what should this be set to?) but anything beyond my main blog page I can’t go to. I can’t log in nor register, go to the XML or Rss feeds …. I get this message

    “A file permissions error has occurred running this script.
    Please check that the script and the directory that it’s in are only writable by the site administrator.
    If this error persists, please contact the server administrator.”

    This is a step closer to it working (which it did before I went up to 1.2.2 – as I couldn’t even get the blog page to show ….

    Any Ideas folks? Blog at https://www.outdoorwords.co.uk

    Cheers

    Pete

    PeteH – email your host and enquire why there. It may be a security setting of theirs.

    I’ll do it first thing Monday… cheers for that. Very frustrating as it’s worked fine before.

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