file permissions

are the permissions and both your blogs the same?

I’m working to change them — the other blog is https://www.susiej.com the index permission is 755

folders are supposed to be set at 755, files at 644.

Does it matter if both web sites have the same settings?

I got everything back up — thank you for that — except I am unable to work on the theme. I get that the file is not editable.
The theme folder is set to 755.

don’t know the answer to your question, doodlebee might. my line of thinking at this point is it would be strange if both were set exactly the same and one was not working. i would match the one that is working and see what’s up.

I matched up the themes folder for both sites to 755– the https://www.susiej.com, that is working, and the https://www.triathletedad.com is set to 755, and susiej works, but triathletedad does not.

Searching through the support forums — I took the advice given to many, and changed the themes folder and the blixkreig folder — both to 666. Still, the permissions were blocking me from editing the theme through the dashboard.

Theme files have to have the permissions changed to edit them. Mine need to be set to 746, but sometimes you have to set them to 777. They’ll *work* at 755, but you can’t edit without changing the permissions.

If you do that, then you need to remember to change the permissions back when you’re finished editing so your site won’t get hacked.

Alternatively, you can just open the files in notepad, make your changes and upload them.

Thanks for your help, doodlebee. (Geesh, that’s fun to say.)
I changed the theme folder:
746 created an error, and wiped out all themes
777 did not make them editable
755 still did not make them editable.

Any other numbers I could try?
Thanks

i agree – i love doodble bee!

what is the downside to reinstall again? sorry about this but it worked on permissions once before for me. how are you editing your permissions? ftp client? cPanel? i got rid of plesk because it was a permissions/naming nightmare for me.

I am using FTP. I am willing to reinstall — however, after I had the same problem, I had install4free do it this morning, and they got the same error.
Do you think it’s worth re-installing?

I’m sorry = filezilla

You would think install4free would work. The solution is in the details -maybe. Before you try reinsalling again, think about this. I stopped changing permissions through my ftp client and do it on the server with software provided by my host to narrow down accountability and have support = cpanel. When I got my host involved they finally had me migrate off of plesk to cpanel. I still have problems as you can see if you visit the forum ?? but the permissions thing seems to be solved.

I feel for your pain. One works. One doesn’t!

OK — I’ll check into that. Now that I’ve learned to edit through filezilla — it’s really not that bad.

But I’m wondering — will I have more problems down the road that I’m not aware of yet?