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I concsistently get two errors at the main page of my gallery it's twice:

>Can't write to file content/folderdata.xml<
>Can't write to file content/folderdata.xml<

AND on the admin page

>Can't write to file config/users.php<

As I understand the users.php is created upon change of admin password. BUT this is not possible as well because as I change it, those chamngements won't be saved.

I strongly suspect the settings of the permissions to be the cause. BUT I checked several times. I also deleted all content uploaded via ftp again, set the chmod permissions, etc. But all these errors persist... (I have not yet uploaded the gallery so its really from scrach

please see youself: www.villiger-meier.ch

HELP!!!

and thank you ver much!

Update: chmod works and I realised that the file folderdata.xml was missing in the content folder (not in the subfolders though). when I was including one (I copied the one from the mp3 folder) the error disappears.

But: The errors at the admin page are still there and I'm not able to save things as admin although chmod was ste correctly...

Well it's obviously a permissions issue. Files are missing yes, to let us create them you need to chmod directory.

Ie. for content/folderdata.xml to appear you have to chmod content/ etc

After you copied folderdata from somewhere and chmodding it you let php write to already created file.

So, to resolve your issue, chmod config/ and subdirs.

(If it won't help - create zero length users.php and chmod the file instead. But it should work with chmodding dir only, we use that directory to store other config data and it has to be writable. If it won't work with chdomming directorly - you need to ask your hosting provider about users/group permissions.)

Pain: Thank you.

As I wrote earlier I suspect the permissions to be set incorrectly too. Just for my understanding (and the hosting provider beeing not accessible at weekends): the permissions look ok when checking with different ftp clients (filezilla, cyberduck and dreamweaver). but when I check the at admins page the permissions are indicated as not beeing set correctly. Is this possible???

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Chris

you may have a look yourself at www.villiger-meier.ch/imagevue ...... admin/admin

You right, everything is unwritable try to chmod files and folders using ftp, some clients have [x] Set permissions for files and folders separately checkbox.

I alread made chmod 777 on all files and folder within content-folder as well in imagevue/config. When I check the permission with ftp they are set correct but when I look at the admin page 'diagnostic' everything is unwritable. Is this possible?

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Chris

Just a stab in the dark here but I had this problem a while back (not with imagvue). Turns out it was the ftp client, all permissions were set correctly but like you turns out they were not.
I tried another ftp client (coreftp) and as if by magic after I set the permissions all was good

Strange, and what was the name of the other one, with problems?

just wanted to post that after a phone call with the hosting provider everything is ok. the issue was that a central setting at the provider was faulty.

Thanks for everone who tried to help me out!

and of course I've changed the admin login now...

pain wrote:Strange, and what was the name of the other one, with problems?

Good question, it was a while ago but I think it might have been ws-ftp, it also would not show hidden folders on a linux server.