Hi all,

Ive been having trouble installing my video ripping script on someones web host and I believe my issue is down to permissions, once the script is uploaded you have to chomd some files and folders to 777, but in this instance the host uses suPHP which requires permissions set to 644 and 755.

His host informs me the script will work with these permissions but this is the first time I've been unable to clear the error and this is the first time I've been unable to chomd the files to 777 so Im wondering if it will!

What is the difference wih permissions set to 755 and se to 777

This is the webpage with the error:

www.videotomp3.net

What is the difference wih permissions set to 755 and se to 777

755 means
Owner of the file: full access
Member of the same group than the owner: read and execute permission
Other users: read and execute permission

This is an octal system split in 3 values.
1st value is for the owner of the file..
2nd value is for the members of the same group than the owner.
3rd value is everyone else.

As for the numbers, it works like a bitmask. You have to add the values up to determine the full rights:
4 is for read
2 is for write
1 is for execution

5 is 4+1

From the man page of my linux station:
man 2 chmod

S_IRUSR (00400) read by owner

S_IWUSR (00200) write by owner

S_IXUSR (00100) execute/search by owner ("search" applies for direc-
tories, and means that entries within the directory
can be accessed)

Most scripts that "need" 777 will work under suPHP with 755 settings because the script is treated as the owner of the file and allowed to do it all.

TMI tripy.

tmi ?
Too many informations ?

Thanks for the replies, I've changed the permissions that I'd normally change and the script doesnt work, it gives me a permission error, if I changed public_html to 755 would that then change all files inside to 755?