Permissions

  • I was just trying to set the permalinks in WP3.0b1. When I press the save button I get the message:

    “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”

    I checked my .htaccess permissions and they were at 775 as is the enclosing directory. I changed it to 777 and then saving of the permalinks works fine. I change it back to 775 and it doesn’t work – I get the same error above.

    What should I be doing properly?

    I’m uncomfortable leaving permissions at 777. Isn’t that a bit dangerous?

    2nd very closely related question: Permissions for directories, wp-config and .htaccess seems to be a never ending adventure. I see a lot of posts questioning this. Why does this problem come up so often for so many people?

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  • Thread Starter pubwvj

    (@pubwvj)

    On an additional note, what I’m doing is trying to move over my FTP Blogger/BlogSpot blog to WP3.0b1. I set my permalink to custom:

    /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

    and shiver me timbers but it actually works! Bravo to WP.

    Still, I do have the questions about the permissions above as I want to understand this… A deep, burning, desire. I’m missing some key bit of knowledge that makes this click.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    If you’re savvy with editing hidden files, set it back to 644 and leave it alone.

    The only time WP needs to write to it is that first time, and frankly, I prefer to keep my locked and safe(r).

    Thread Starter pubwvj

    (@pubwvj)

    I’ll go back to that. Thanks for confirming.

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