UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Installation and Upgrade Support chmod 4 digits to 3 digits

I just bought your awesome forum software

I am in the process of installing it

The chmod permissions

Excerpt from your Installation Instructions:

Unix & Mac Servers:

You must set the following permissions on the UBB.threads™ files and directories. You can use your FTP software to set these permissions. For exact information on setting permissions in your FTP client, see the documentation included with that program.

includes/ directory: set permissions to 0777

files within the includes/ directory: set permissions to 0666

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On my web hosting server, they have 3 digit numbers there

Not 4 digit numbers

includes/ directory: is set right now to: 755

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Do I ignore the first digit from your install instructions?

The first digit in your install instructions is a 0

So than it would be 777 instead of 0777

or 666 instead of 0666


???

On my web hosting server, for the inludues directory (for example)

it says this:

Chmod directories and files

Owner: Read Write Execute

Group: Read Write Execute

Everyone: Read Write Execute

To set all permissions to the same values, enter those permissions and click on the button "Set all permissions".

Set the permissions of directory includes to:

Owner: Read Write Execute

Group: Read Write Execute

Everyone: Read Write Execute

Chmod value: 755

Chmod also the subdirectories within this directory

Chmod also the files within this directory


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Your Installation Instructions says to change it to 0777

?

Help


Do I just ignore the first digit which is 0 and set it to 777 ?

ok my web hosting server company just replied to my email help question

they said yes, ignore your first digit 0 number and set it to 777 and 666

instead of 0777 and 0666

Yeh 777 and 666 can be used in exchange of 0777 and 0666

Thank you Gizmo

I successfully installed it

I am in the Control Panel right now. It's going to take me awhile to understand the options in there.

I don't know why the install script can't just do all the CHMOD settings it self. I know in Perl language you can write the script to set CHMOD and I am sure you can do it in PHP.

The problem is PHP can't chmod it if it doesn't have permission to write to it in the first place. It can be done however if the PHP script initiates an FTP connection and does it via FTP, which we'll be doing for v8.

what about one file uploaded that "unpacks" the UBB software then sets the proper permissions. However you would need two different install files, one for a new install and one for an upgrade install as so it does not overwrite the necessary configuration files.