I've had to manually install Drupal 6.24 on my cPanel server as the administrators, for reasons that they only could know, have put on Fanastico with Drupal 7.x yet only support mysql4.x...
The installation appeared to go well enough _except_ that afterwards, I get a helpful warning that the file system permissions on .../sites/default (folder) and .../sites/default/settings.php are insecure. In order to install these were changed to 777 and 666 respectively.
When I try to change them back, the installer re-starts, and then complains that the permissions need re-setting to allow the installer access once more.
I suspect an ownership problem here - can anyone confirm this - who should own the file and in what group should it be (and the folder too)?
With the permissions set as indicated above, Drupal seems to be running normally (allowing me to upload themes and generally get the hang of the system) but I am concerned about security with those permissions.
Best Regards
Ian Beeby
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I have a drupal installed on
I have a drupal installed on cpanel. settings.php and the default directory have 0555. They are owned my by own userid. What you are seeing suggests that the web server cannot read the files.
Dear malcomp, Just the job -
Dear malcomp,
Just the job - changed the permissions as you suggested and the warning has gone away and the installaton has _not_ reappeared.
Very grateful:-)
Ian