CGI and acatalog permissions....

[firecraka]

Hi all,

I have just installed PuTTy on my system to allow me to change the permissions on my cgi and acatalog folders. Everything is working fine except i haven't a clue what I do after I have navigated to the relevant folders with PuTTy.

Could someone who hosts with fasthosts please give me a simples steps explanation as to what I type to change permissions.

Much appreciated to all the help and advice from this forum.

Kindest Regards

Rich Jacob
firecraka multimedia

[Nadeem]

Hi there

PuTTy is a command line driven program. Quite similar to dos

You will need to use CD command to go to different folders

I.E, when logging into PuTTy for your site, type in

cd htdocs

This will go to the htdocs folder. To list what folder you have, simply type in

dir

or

ls -l

This will list the folders

To set a permission on a folder, simply type in

chmod 755 cgi-bin

This will set the cgi-bin folder to a permission of 755

chmod 777 acatalog

will set the permission of acatalog to 777

Please also check out the following link, this was taken from extreme support from Fasthost.

Here is the
link

I hope this helps you. Might i also add that Fasthost is the only company that we know that require manually setting the permission through UNIX command using PuTTy software

Kind Regards

[firecraka]

Thanks again Nadeem for some spot on advice...i managed to change the folder permissions ...now i guess i have to wait a little while.

Kind regards

rich jacob
firecraka multimedia

[firecraka]

Hi Nadeem,

The bad news is that I have tried evrything suggested to me by actinic and fasthosts...only to find it still doesnt work. The thing that occured to me was that in the actinig course the upload and generate website facilities worked perfectly and smoothly without any problems. This makes me want to know what hosts you guys use. If these are publc servers , I would like to host my ecomms on these servers because they obviously work with the software.

My other thought is that I can give one of you guys remote access to my pc to sort this congif problem out. I have changed the permissions on my servers and it still will not work.

Please can you get back to me on this one .

kind regards

rich jacob
firecraka multimedia

[I-CC]

When you list the files and folders from the command line, who are they listed as being owned by, i.e. do you see your own username to the left of the files, or is some other username listed there.

If it is something other than your username and usergroup, then ask them to take a look at the ownership rights assigned to the files that you upload and generate from within your site within the httpd settings.

An idea.