File Permissions... [SOLVED]

[ROUBOS]

OK,
it says that folders should be 755 and files 644.

OK a folder with 755 will have the files inside it as 644 ? What about its subfolders?

How do we setup a folder to 755 and not the files within?

[yiannisK]

Alllllll the folders-subfolders should be 755 expect cache and tmpr

How do we setup a folder to 755 and not the files within?

Don't mess-up the folders with the files. When you choose a folder, this does not means that you change the files in it , you just change the permissions of the selected folder

There an option in ftp programs (filezilla etc) where you can change all the files inside a folder, so with the same action you make 2 jobs simultaneously

[ROUBOS]

yes  I just did that . I installed filezilla.

I did all the folders (and subfolders) 755

then all the files 644

then cache/ and tmpr/ 777 including there subfolders and files...

no luck in installing a component

also did 777 the components/ and administrator/components/ folders ONLY. so I can install a component.

No Luck

[datahell]

Send me, with a personal message, username/password to your site administration area and to your site FTP.
Tell me which component you try to install.
I will install it for you and inform you on any problem found on your site.

[ROUBOS]

OK thanks for your replies.
The problem is solved. It was the unmask permissions. They had the server on safe mode and I could not install a thing.

Got them to change it for a while so I could install the bots and components I wanted and it works great now

thank you for the replies.

been really helpful