Installation of WB

[quy]

I took all the files under the /wb/ folder from my PC and ftp'ed to my web server under the HTML document root directory. But in the installation wizard, it says that files "wb/config.php", etc are Unwriteable. I don't know why it thinks the config.php file is still under a /wb/ folder when it's now under my httpdocs folder which is the document root for my webserver. I even changed the permission using chmod 755 and it stills says Unwriteable.

Thanks in advance,
Quy

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

You read http://help.websitebaker.org/pages/en/basic-docu/installation/wb-installer.php ?
Everything is called "writable" in the Install script except config.php then?
Try to delete your cache of the browser, make sure the config.php has chmod 666 (755 is for folders, 666 for files).

Yours Michael

[kweitzel]

It looks like the FTP User is not the same like the WWW user. If you are lucky, both are in the same group, then 775 will suffice. If they are not, then only 777 would work or changing the owner of the files ...

Please read here: http://help.websitebaker.org/pages/en/knowledge-base/files-and-permissions.php

cheers

Klaus

[a5s]

Hi,

the message "wb/config.php" is hard coded. But it use relative path without wb/ in code. It should find the config.php but can only not write. Can you set chmod to 777 (only to test)?

[quy]

It's not just config.php that is not writeable but all the other files under Step 2.

I did chmod 777 and it worked but isn't that a big security hole to allow groups and others to have write access to these files?

[kweitzel]

And why haven't you tried 775?

[quy]

I actually installed with chmod 777 for all the files/directories before I installed and then changed it back to 755 after I installed so all is good for now.

Quy