[pmwiki-users] Newbie chmod 777 installation question

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Mar 2 17:40:27 CST 2006


On 3/2/06, Craig Watson <ccwatson1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies in advance as I am real newbie with respect to unix and admin tasks.
>
> I have just installed (successfullly!) pmwiki on my hosted webspace
> and needed to do the chmod 777 (step 3a) on the wiki.d directory for
> the installation to work.
> What I wanted to understand was if I should revert the  permissions
> back now the install has occured or if they need to remain like that
> for pmwiki to be able to continue updated that directory as I edit the
> wiki?

They remain like that.

If you do a chmod 2777 on the main pmwiki directory (step 3b) you
should revert permissions.

Hagan




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