By auroramae on

I hope that someone can share a list of the default file permissions fro Drupal 6.2

I also hope that someone has experience with godaddy add on domains and can give me the right combination of steps to apply to solve the following problem.

I have moved a working 6.2 site to a new server.
The server is godaddy.
Godaddy allows you to have multiple domains on one hosting account and the Drupal installation is in a sub directory that should be able to be accessed directory with it's own domain name IE subdirectory.org
The site works fine at: mysite.org/subdirectory
Godaddy is configured correctly to show the domain in the subfolder and there is also a wildcard DNS entry.

I have tried numerous combinations of .htaccess adjustments and also tweaked the settings.php base url. At this point I have taken everything back to the defaults and I get a forbidden.

When using the full path the site seems to work fine. There are some issues with the FCK editor related to the domain cookie settings and I feel this can be resolved after the domain redirect is working. I disabled clean urls for now since I saw that it may be the source of issues. no help.

At one point during my file tweaks the site was showing up but as follows with an extra subdirectory reference.
subdirectory.org/subdirectory/user
which of course results in an error page.

I have searched the forums and Google extensively. I found one conversation here that has a link to a page with a default directory and file permissions reference and it comes up as access denied.

Thank you very much for any guidance you can give.

Aurora

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rryder commented

i am new to Drupal but when I installed Wordpress on GoDaddy, i had to change write permissions on support folders so that the MySQL could write temp files and folders (chmod of folder to 777). I'm wondering if that is going to be true for Drupal too. I just enabled Drupal on GoDaddy .. so i'm keeping an eye out for a more definitive answer.

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auroramae commented

Thanks for the input.
I fiddled with the file permissions to no avail and was hoping for a list of the defaults.
I finally gave up and installed 6 cleanly on the server then added the theme and all the modules and imported sql tables a little at a time. It works and looks fine but is a MESS because the person that was editing the site linked to other areas of the site in his pages using the clean urls which apparently are not possible on Godaddy.
He used internal links copiously in the articles and either he or I will need to review every page (arrrgh) and fix the links to the other pages. I looked for a quick fix and can't seem to find one and really can't come up with a SQL query that returns clean urls to "dirty" ones.