UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? file permissions and ownership

i am wondering about the file permissioning and ownership for the wwwthreads installation package.
who should be the owner and the group the files belong to? root? apache? another user on the system? and what should all the file permissions be set to other than the ones that need to be able to be written to by the web server. It seems that after extracting the files they have different permissions and i can't figure out the system behind the defaults. for example i can't figure out why certain files have write permissions like the readme files etc...i have been doing some trial and error but i can't figure out the system of the permissioning. should any files be executable? the documentation is very limited in explaining this.. maybe someone can help me clear things up a little.

You should be able to set all files to being owned by the user you log in as. The PHP scripts do not need to be executable, so the normal scripts should be something line 644 or 664.

Hmmm maybe something wrong with my server setup then.

i extract the fresh install file on my server using:
tar xvf wwwthreads.tar.gz
i rename the wwwthreads dir to forum using:
mv -p wwwthreads forum
i edit the config.inc.php, theme.inc.php and theme.inc.php files to use the database i have used with the php 5.1.6 version.
i ran the altertable script from the browser.
i enter the board in my browser and i get a parse error:
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Warning: Failed opening '/var/www/html/fafa/languages/english/generic.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in /var/www/html/fafa/main.inc.php on line 41
Fatal error: Failed opening required 'languages//wwwthreads.php' (include_path='') in /var/www/html/fafa/wwwthreads.php on line 11
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after some troubleshooting i find out that if i change the permission setting of just the "languages" dir from the default to 100 then i can get in.. however i still get warnings.
after i change the permission settings to some of the other dirs in the package to 100 i get almost no more warnings.
however if i try to post or preview a post i get some warnings as described in > this < thread.
i was wondering if this also could have something to do with permissioning and temporarily set all files and dirs to 777. but with no luck..
what do you think?
maybe it is a database corruption?

Many times hosting companies have very strict guidelines set to what directory/file permissions need to be. Normally directories need to be either 755 or 775.

i am my own host :)

Ok, that makes things easier[]/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif[/]. On my system, for PHP, all directores are chmoded to 775, all files (except for the ones that are writeable) are 664, and owned by my user and group.

Thanks for your help its definetely appreciated...