file ownership/permissions issues
 

Somehow my permissions/file ownership has gotten out of wack. What should file permissions be set at? Should file ownership be set to "WWW" or the user? My hosting company contacted me last week saying my site was insecure because of how the permissions were set up. I asked xcart people to fix this and they did. Then there were certain directories which I couldn't see the files (though they were there). Now I can see all file by my site totally doesn't work. My host said they changed the ownership from WWW to the user. This is the error I'm getting:


Any insight would be appriciated.

thanks

try running http://www.yoursite.com/xcartdir/cleanup.php

that will refresh the templates_c folders

I have a list of what file permissions should be set as and will post it in the faq in a while when I find it again.

Thanks shan. My host has been screwing with my permissions and the last change they made everything unreadable. It has been fixed now.

Check the faq for the word from above

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?p=5205#5205

So everything was working ok on Friday, UNTIL I decided to make a change. Now I get this error:


All I did was upload head.tpl and skin1.conf. The site seems to work fine though. Strange thing is the change I made was a modification to the drop-down box in the search box on head.tpl. I totally changed the contents of the drop down box though the old options are what show up even though those options are no longer in the code?? Strange huh? I'm assuming it's got to be a permissions issue since I've been having problems with them and I've modified plenty of tpl files without any problems. Can't figure it out though.

You could always try and run

http://www.yourhost.com/xcartdir/cleanup.php to flush out the templates folder

What does that do exactly? I have made a lot of modifications.

It will just clear out the templates_c directory which is where smarty puts the compiled versions of your templates. Its like a cache and is updated whever you change any files.

Its fine to clear it every now and again as it does not change your .tpl files

Well I tried that and I'm still getting the error.

I can't figure this out. The code which is currently showing up on my site, no longer is there. It has been replaced by other code yet there it is.

If you could check out my site, just to make sure i'm not insane or something.

http://208.56.135.184/customer/home.php

thanks

Have you made sure your /templates_c/ directory permissions are chmod 777?