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stncttr908
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Help with config files and chmodding

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I'm a student at NJIT, and I want to use our 125MB of provided space to test out some scripts. The point of this is to ultimately merge everything into a website for fellow students. Anyway, I'm using a program called Sendcard found at http://www.sendcard.org for students to send out cards to their parents, friends, whomever.

However, I can't seem to give the script access to the config files, etc. Everytime I try to change the settings via admin forms, changes are not saved. I've tried to set the chmod to 666, 755, 777, etc. However, the scripts don't want to save my data. Any suggestions?

I just tried invision power board as well, and no matter what I do I cannot access the conf_global.php file required to install the software. I try 666, 777, 755, everything I can, but nothing bothers to work.
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Post by DuFF »

Make sure you CHMOD the file and the folder. I had the same problem with a couple of my files.
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Post by stncttr908 »

Cannot write to 'conf_global.php'. Please adjust the permissions to allow this script to write to the file. if in doubt, CHMOD via FTP to 0777

That's what IPB tells me, even if I CHMOD the folder to 666 and the file to 666, the folder to 777 and the file to 777, etc. I guess I'll have to talk to the webspace department about this.
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