A Small Problem, Very small

[AJalex]

Well i uploaded a PHPBB3 forum and well some things got mixed up (forum uploaded 2 times) and i tried to delete both of them and start again.

Now the problem is that when i try to delete it (with file zilla) some folders still remain and can't be deleted.

Any way i can delete them?


Thanks in advance.

[Ed]

Make sure hidden files are set to on, and remove the .htaccess within the directories your can't remove.

[AJalex]

Ok thanks, it worked.

[AJalex]

Ok so i don't make another thread i will use this one.

So i proceed with installing PHPBB and i get the following errors:

CODE

Files and Directories

Required - In order to function correctly phpBB needs to be able to access or write to certain files or directories. If you see “Not Found” you need to create the relevant file or directory. If you see “Unwritable” you need to change the permissions on the file or directory to allow phpBB to write to it.

cache/:
    Found, Unwritable

files/:
    Found, Unwritable

store/:
    Found, Unwritable

Optional files and directories

Optional - These files, directories or permission settings are not required. The installation system will attempt to use various techniques to create them if they do not exist or cannot be written to. However, the presence of these will speed installation.

config.php:
    Found, Unwritable

images/avatars/upload/:
    Found, Unwritable

anyone knows why those files are unwritable and how to make them work properly?

[Andrew]

They are unwritable because on linux all files have certain permissions so that you the user can't mess certain files up, and so that other programs can't mess files up.

Depending on which FTP program your using, you normally right click the file or folder and go to properties or permissions and change the permission of the file.

Had you read the phpBB documentation that came with phpBB files it would have told you which files to chmod and what their chmod value is supposed to be (777, 755, etc)

[AJalex]

... i tried every combination but still nothing

Any suggestion?

And in the documentation that came with PHPBB i couldn't find anything related to this problem.

Any suggestions?

[Andrew]

I'll admit that this wasn't on their front page but I think you could have looked a little harder.

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php...l&version=3

1. Quick install

If you have basic knowledge of using FTP and are sure your hosting service or server will run phpBB3 you can use these steps to quickly get started. For a more detailed explanation you should skip this and go to section 2 below.

1. Decompress the phpBB3 archive to a local directory on your system.
2. Upload all the files contained in this archive (retaining the directory structure) to a web accessible directory on your server or hosting account.
3. Change the permissions on config.php to be writable by all (666 or -rw-rw-rw- within your FTP Client)
4. Change the permissions on the following directories to be writable by all (777 or -rwxrwxrwx within your FTP Client):
store/, cache/, files/ and images/avatars/upload/.
5. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpBB3 with the addition of install/index.php or pointing directly to install/, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB3/install/, http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/ etc.
6. Click the INSTALL tab, follow the steps and fill out all the requested information.
7. Change the permissions on config.php to be writable only by yourself (644 or -rw-r--r-- within your FTP Client)
8. phpBB3 should now be available, please MAKE SURE you read at least Section 6 below for important, security related post-installation instructions.

If you experienced problems or do not know how to proceed with any of the steps above please read the rest of this document.

[AJalex]

Oops, sorry my bad.


Anyway thanks.