Dir and fle permissions

[James_P]

Bit of a rookie with PHP and trying to implement a php based CMS. The manual says that I "need to ensure that PHP can write to the listed directories and files". Therefore my questions is, when using the CHMOD command, what combination of numbers do I use. Appears to work with 777 but I imagine this is leaving things just a bit too open.

Thanks in advance.

James

[Raven]

The most common chmod settings I see for scripts are 777, 755, and 666. If you want to know how it actually works there is a page at Linux Online which explains about chmod here.

[Julian Muñoz]

You need to chmod the directory to 777 if you want PHP to be able to write...

[James_P]

Thanks for your help.

James