dm87

Perhaps I need to provide more detail.
The theme I am trying out is purplish-20. The pages load with the content listed at the end of the page, below the fold. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a quick fix for this? I’ve tried it out with different browsers, all the same effect.
I’m a newbie and haven’t got the skills to develop my own theme, so I’m not quite sure how to fix this one.
Thanks
Dm87

There isn’t much of an advantage to 604, over 644, except that with 644 the other users can browse through the directory’s structure with their ftp programs and read files they find interesting. It is the access to complete directory structure and ease of browsing that are undesirable. The world does not have this type of access because I have setup noindex in the htaccess file.

The 600 php files for WordPress seem to be working so far, although I haven’t tried everything, so there may be a problem lurking somewhere.

The shared server is a BSD system.

This is the thing, I want to give as little access as possible to my directories and files using permissions. The rest of the customers on my server (the group) can browse through any time unless I set file permissions to prevent it. They aren’t much of a threat, but I like privacy, so I want to set group to 0 zero, no access, whenever possible. ergo 604 rather than 644

My sftp program can be configured to upload with specified file permissions, so I am trying to come up with a set of rules for permissions for various file types.

html 604
jpg/gif/png 604
js 604
css 604
php 600
txt 600
assorted files like lbi that are only being stored 600
default (directories and everything else) 705

Does this clarify what I am trying to do?

I am confused.

On Apache, if I set permissions to 604 (rw____r__) then only the owner can write to the files, isn’t this correct?

If I use cgi-phpwrap, then I do not need to give access to nobody or group, I can close the php files off from group and world, isn’t that right? What do I need group access for?

I tried setting my php files to rw_______ (600) and everything seems to be working fine. I can’t access the files directly with a web browser, and I don’t understand how someone else on the server could access the php files?

If anyone knows of a really good tutorial on WHAT permissions to set, in what situations, I would really appreciate it.

I am using a shared server and wonder about group privileges. Should I consider using 604 rather than 644, and 606 rather than 666?

Yes, that did it. Thanks for your help, it is appreciated.

https://www.canadaart.info/events/wp-rss2.php

Reading, reading, reading. I discovered elsewhere on the forum
https://feedvalidator.org/
which might help with testing rss.

My site is getting a “Server returned HTTP Error 404:”.

I am a newbie. About your second question, how to test to make sure the RSS feed is working. I think I know how to do that, in two ways. One is to visit the web page that displays the feed to make sure everything is OK. https://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php

The second way to test it is to try to read your feed in a program such as NewsNetWire. Subscribe to your own feed by adding a subscription, configuring it to use the same URL for your site as you see above.

My site feed does not work. There are boxes that translate into tabs when I copy the html source code and paste it into a text editor. These are being generated automatically, and I wonder why.

To further this question, I would like to change all of the blue links to a different color for all of the WordPress pages. Where is that blue defined in the CSS file?

I am new to wordpress, mysql, php and themes. Your visual anatomy clears up some of the problems I have had so far. For instance, I didn’t realize that the html tag started on the header page, skipped the index/content page, and other pages entirely and ended on the footer page. You have no idea how much grief that tidbit saved me. That kind of information may have been sitting somewhere on the codex site, but I didn’t run into it after several days of grazing for info.

My problems usually arise over simple things, things that are just too obvious to be explained by the experienced.

BINGO! That was it, it is all working as expected now.

Thanks!
Donna dm87

You know, I wonder if the problem lies somewhere other than wp grabbing rss feeds.

The links on the blog (for things like Category) are all aimed at somebody else’s server. And the browser just hangs there trying to connect to the nonexistant server. Likewise, when I login as administrator, all the links aim at somebody else’s server, e.g. Presentation attempts to find the wordpress themes directory on somebody else’s server.

WordPress seems very confused.

Donna dm87

Perhaps I need to “edit wp-admin/index.php directly”. I need guidance on this, what am I looking for and what edit is needed?

Donna dm87

I gave the plugin from https://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=131 a try.

When I follow the instructions and attempt to activate the plugin, I get the following error message:

“Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work.”

Not sure where to go from here.

Donna dm87