Permissions problem

[Mike Hughes]

Yes, you need to enable 'write' permissions for all and no, this doesn't open you up to attacks as people still need a username and password to transfer files.

Mike

[willygriggs]

I tried setting them all to write and not only did it not work but it also knocked my 'live' Catalogue version off!

[Mike Hughes]

Changing the permissions to 777 shouldn't affect anything already running.

Was it changing the permissions or trying to do an upload of V8 afterwards?

Mike

PS. I'm a bit confused here. Are you trying to upload V8 to overwrite an existing V6 site or onto some new space?

[willygriggs]

Sorry, I don't understand the 777 thing!

I have got a site running on Catalogue version 6 and have imported the snapshot into Business Version 8, made all of the changes that I want and then when I Test the Network setup' (all of the details are identical to the catalogue version) I get the 'You do not have write permissions to the cgi-bin directory "/public/www/cgi-bin/" or it does not exist.' error message.

[Mike Hughes]

OK. "777" is shorthand for setting the permissions to on for everybody (it comes from the binary for each user group so 1 1 1 means all enabled = 7).

have you tried doing an upload or are you just testing the network settings at the moment?

If you have a live site on V6 then I would try doing an upload to a test area first with V8 and once that works then do the upload to the live area.

Mike

[willygriggs]

Cheers for your help Olderscot, I have tried everything I can think of!

I have now sent a snapshot of the site to Support who are going to try and sort out the problem from there and see whether it is a Firewall issue.