| web hotel screwed all permissins up [message #19674] |
Wed, 18 August 2004 21:34  |
lahoo
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My girlfriend's forum based on v2.6.2 was crashed by the web hotel operator implementing safe_mode_gid (without any notice) and in the process they totally messed up permissions for all files and folders.
Some files got rw------- and most folders also got permissions that caused problems.
Not having a shell available makes it a pure hell (chmod file by file via an FTP client) trying to put everything back the way it's supposed to be - and I'm not even sure which file needs which permissions.
So, can the whole situation be corrected by reinstalling 2.6.2 (or upgrading to a newer version) without loosing forum data?
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| Re: web hotel screwed all permissins up [message #19675 is a reply to message #19674] |
Wed, 18 August 2004 22:29  |
Ilia
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If the permissions I broken you may not be able to upgrade the forum because it will not have the ability to modify/add/delete files.
That said, there is a quick fix, ask the hosting provider to chown all forum's directories to the user PHP runs as. That'll fix the problem.
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