desertrose61 Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file. This error message seems to on browser .Host is on windows Xp .How can I change user permission of catalog/includes/configure.php on windows xp to chmod 644 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Spazmatic- Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 I use SmartFTP and it's very easy to do from there, just right click and change CHMOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose61 Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 I use SmartFTP and it's very easy to do from there, just right click and change CHMOD. But How Can I change permission on my own localhost not on server with smart ftp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaBiSmAd Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file. This error message seems to on browser .Host is on windows Xp .How can I change user permission of catalog/includes/configure.php on windows xp to chmod 644 You are probably trying to make this read only. Simply navigate to the file in windows, right click on it, and check the read-only check box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaBiSmAd Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Sorry, I left out a step - Simply navigate to the file in windows, right click on it, select properties, and check the read-only check box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose61 Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 You are probably trying to make this read only. Simply navigate to the file in windows, right click on it, and check the read-only check box. When oscommerce is being installed. Documentation.Pdf refers that Reset the permissions on /catalog/includes/configure.php to 644 (if you are still getting the warning message at the top set configure.php to 444 which is read only - this happens on some servers that have been updated for security reasons). Set the permissions on /catalog/images directory to 777. Reset the permissions on /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php to 644. Create the dir /catalog/admin/backups and set the permissions to 777. Set the permissions on /catalog/admin/images/graphs directory to 777. As I couldnt do these on my own localhost. I get this error message "Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file." So I want to adjust that error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 When oscommerce is being installed. Documentation.Pdf refers that Reset the permissions on /catalog/includes/configure.php to 644 (if you are still getting the warning message at the top set configure.php to 444 which is read only - this happens on some servers that have been updated for security reasons). Set the permissions on /catalog/images directory to 777. Reset the permissions on /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php to 644. Create the dir /catalog/admin/backups and set the permissions to 777. Set the permissions on /catalog/admin/images/graphs directory to 777. As I couldnt do these on my own localhost. I get this error message "Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file." So I want to adjust that error You need to chmod it from a FTP client. If you don't want to do that, maybe your hosting company will do it for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaBiSmAd Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 When oscommerce is being installed. Documentation.Pdf refers that Reset the permissions on /catalog/includes/configure.php to 644 (if you are still getting the warning message at the top set configure.php to 444 which is read only - this happens on some servers that have been updated for security reasons). Set the permissions on /catalog/images directory to 777. Reset the permissions on /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php to 644. Create the dir /catalog/admin/backups and set the permissions to 777. Set the permissions on /catalog/admin/images/graphs directory to 777. As I couldnt do these on my own localhost. I get this error message "Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/catalog/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file." So I want to adjust that error Windows operating systems (all of them) do not support chmod. You must use windows user permissions to accomplish the same thing, ie. read-only... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeman Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 This is really nuts because now it appears to be set to 444 however it is still displaying that message... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stah Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 This is really nuts because now it appears to be set to 444 however it is still displaying that message... try Chmod What is chmod Chmod is essentially what rights a specific file or folder have. These rights decide whether a file can be read and executed and where. You can for example assign rights to a file, which means that it cannot be viewed in a browser, but can still be viewed, when accessing your web space via FTP. You should not change chmod for files or folders, except if you are told to do so or if you are aware of the consequences changing chmod can have. How to change chmod? To change chmod on a file or folder, you should log on to your web space, using an FTP-program like FileZilla. Right-click the file you wish to change chmod for and choose chmod/attributes/rights. From here you should be able to set the rights. Standard chmod rights For files the standard chmod is 644 and for folders it is 755. Changing chmod to 444 Some scripts (mainly OsCommerce) have files that needs to have chmod 444. This is not possible to do via FTP, but should in stead be done via PHP. Please copy/paste the following code to a blank text document: <?php $filename = "file.php"; chmod("/customers/mydomain.dk/mydomain.dk/httpd.www/$filename", 0444); echo "chmod for $filename was changed"; ?> file.php should be changed to the file that you wish to change chmod for. If the file is located in a subfolder, you should enter this here as well, i.e. subfolder/file.php. Save the file and upload it to your web space and access the file via a browser. The file's chmod will now be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Many servers will silently ignore requests to change permissions from FTP clients. You need to use the "control panel" tools provided by your host. There's no harm in trying to set permissions on a Windows host to 444 via an FTP client (or via a PHP script), but just because there's no error reported is no proof that the action took place. Most of the documentation is Linux-oriented (permissions such as 644 and 444). In the Windows world, you add "Read Only" attributes for various classes of users. "644" would be "Read-Write for the owner, and Read-Only for everyone else". 444 would be "Read-Only for everyone". As an additional note, what's of concern here is not whether the "owner" can actually write to a file, but whether PHP is able to. The idea is to make it so PHP can't overwrite the configuration files, in case a hacker somehow persuades osC to actually try to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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