Thread: Setting Linux File Permissions

Here is some basic help on setting file permissions.

Files, and directories, used by aeDating require correct permissions to allow aeDating to work.

For example, if you wish to edit your lang file from the aeDating Admin Panel, you should set the permissions on lang-XXXX.php to 777.

chmod values, and resulting permissions
777 -rwxrwxrwx
766 -rwx-rw-rw
755 -rwx-r-xr-x
774 -rwxrwxr--
740 -rwx-r-----
700 -rwx------
400 -r--------


SSH/Telnet
For example, to change the permissions on the aeDating language file named lang-English.php so that everyone could read, write, and execute the file, you would first change to that directory:

cd /home/aedating/langs << this is an example, it will be different on your site
and then type:
chmod 777 lang-English.php

DirectAdmin / Cpanel
Login to your control panel, and then click on "File Manager". Browse to your lang directory, and click on the language file (lang-English.php). Then choose "Permissions" from the menu, and choose the permissions you desire.

If your AEdating is installed on a shared server, you may wish to consider checking your file permissions, and making sure your script files are not globally writable.

On a unix/linux server, this would involve using 'chmod' to alter the file permissions for all .php, .htm and .asp files to 644.

File permissions can be set via most FTP clients, or if you have SSH access to your server, you can use the following commands:

Code:

cd /path/to/your/AEdating
chmod -R 644 *.php
chmod -R 644 *.css
chmod -R 644 *.html
chmod -R 644 *.js

Remember, some of the files in AEdating require write permissions for some functions to work correctly - like your lang-English.php file, if you wish to be able to edit it from your admin panel (not recommended anyways), if you want to edit your style sheets (.css) from the admin panel), and in some cases, your header.inc.php (if you change your template from the admin panel).

Smoge