Prob Modifying Style Sheet

[ITGEEK]

Okay, maybe I am missing something here, but every time I set the permissions to write to the style.css I get errors saying it was denied. What am I missing here? I appreciate any feedback!

[Alberto]

I'm not sure I understand where it is you are setting the permission?

[ITGEEK]

Well, the thing is is that I cannot upload anything. Actually, after making the modification to the signup.php just now it would not allow me to upload the change. It says Cannot Put Signup 550 signup.php Permission Denied

[ITGEEK]

Okay, this is getting pretty frustrating! I cannot even upload image files. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[Alberto]

Well, have you looked to see who the owners of the files are? Are you logging in your FTP as the same user?

[ITGEEK]

I havealways been able to modify files until tonight when I had to reinstall because we switched our site over to an IP based site. When we reinstalled from scratch it went flawlessly until we began modifying our files. We kept the database intact and we are using the same login info as before.

[Alberto]

You are talking about modifying files via FTP correct? If so then your problem is that the owner of the files are not the same as the ftp user.

[ITGEEK]

It doesn't matter if I am modifying the files via FTP or DW, but yes. What do you mean by the owner of the files? I am using the same login via FTP as I have always used. And I never had a problem until I reinstalled tonight.

Even if I chmod the directory 777 it still does not allow me to upload to the clientexec dir.

[Alberto]

Ok I looked at your files and this is what I saw. Your directory where clientexec is installed is owned by root. So you will not be able to overwrite those files via FTP.

You need root privs to chown -R user.user clientexecdir, where user.user is your ftp user and clientexecdir is the directory you installed clientexec.

that will fix your problem

[ITGEEK]

Thanks Alberto,

I forgot that I was actually logged in as root (working on my server) when I reinstalled CE. Which would explain why it had root ownership. I just could n't figure out why. I will just actually reinstall again under the admin.