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Originally Posted by jeffrey  Hi Gobala, Steven
Jeffrey here, just bought Easy Wordpress and finish reading it, installing my plugins and facing the same problem like most forumers here as I noticed.
Just as May highlighted, what should be the permission setting for .htaccess ?
Page 38 indicate "666"
Page 4 in "7 days plan" indicate "777"
Now in the above post by Steven indicate "766"
It's confusing...my understanding...it should be "666", kindly clarify. Thanks. |
Hi Jeffrey,
I am glad you have bought the ebook and registered here.
Okay to answer your question, let's look at the image below for the permissions for 3 different access level in the server:
As you can see, I set:
the user at 7 which is read, write &
execute.
the group at 6 which is read, write.
the others at 6 which is read, write.
666 setting is not enough for the user to execute the file automatically. You need 766 (for certain file that need re-write automatically when the server perform the cron or posting jobs).
You can set all the access level to 777. That's not problem however, some hosts might not allow you to do that, hence, will drop your setting back to 666 or lower. This will eventually affect the blog running well.
The reason why some hosts not allow is they worry any hackers (if you put 777 settings) can break in your file and do something on it.. and eventually will take up the server resources very much.
From my experience, 766 is sufficient. Unless you put 766 and yet your blog has runtime error, then you set to 776 or 777.
I hope this can help you understand the mechanism.