Smarty Templates: Permission Denied Errors Outside /public_html

[7elephants]

I am using Smarty templates on my website and everything works fine at home. When I upload the files to my site, I get permission denied errors. I have tried setting the permissions on all the files and folders to 777 just to see if I could be it to work, but no luck. All my paths in the configuration are absolute paths.

Here is the setup...

/home/<user>/public_html/shared/smarty.php tries to access /home/<user>/smarty/libs/Smary.class.php

I don't think this problem is specific to Smarty, just thought I would give the details.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide...

[Spathiphyllum]

If you haven't considered this before, try using WinSCP. I'm assuming you're on a Win32 system. It's a SCP (secure copy FTP client) application that can be used like a local/remote file manager with some finite command line operations. You can create directories, change permissions, chown, and many other *nix commands to work through the bottleneck you seem to be experiencing. I don't know if you are using cPanel, FTP, etc. so troubleshooting is a bit tricky at this point. I'd recommend WinSCP heartily. So would most of the regulars that help on this forum. Forget the other stuff... they just don't have the versatility.

[7elephants]

Thanks for the advice...

I actually just fixed my problem...moving the class file to the SMARTY root instead of the libs directory fixed it.