I REALLY screwed up now…

  • …and I have no idea what to do. While trying to change permissions so I can upload images, I changed something and now I can’t even view my site. This is the error message that comes up:

    Warning: main(/home/mrmarco/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/mrmarco/public_html/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 69

    Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home/mrmarco/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mrmarco/public_html/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 69

    That stinks and I don’t have a clue how to fix it.

    please help

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  • First try changing permissions on your wp-content folder to 777 to see if that resolves the problem.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    MichaelH – That seems like I’d be leaving myself really vulnerable to all the “evil doers” out there.

    According to the Developers, the wp-content folder is meant to be writeable.

    Not permanently, silly. You are in troubleshooting mode… Get over it. ?? If 777 makes it work then go to 775 or 755 and you’re done.

    MichaelH :: Mine is 775.

    Good point WarAxe though I understand that may differ based on server.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    I changed the wp-content to 777 but it made no difference; still the same error. I returned it to 764 for now.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    I’m hosted with A Small Orange if that helps.

    So what folders did you originally change permissions on?

    Make sure your other folders are 755. And make sure wp-content/cache is writeable.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    MichaelH, I really don’t remember which ones. But I did go back and change everything to 755 (wordpress file, index.php, wp-admin, wp-content & wp-includes).

    Now I don’t get the error message. I do get a blank screen though. Not great but at least it looks like some progress is happening.

    Question; when I change the permissions for a folder, does that automatically change the permissions for the contents of the folders as well?

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    BTW – I have no wp-content/cache file… ???

    755 on wp-content/themes?

    Changing wp-content permissions won’t automatically change subfolders.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    I found the cache in the wp-includes/cache. It’s permission is set at 664. Writeable to Owner and Group but not Others.

    Thanks for all your help so far, I really appreciate it.

    chmod wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php to 644 .

    the end.

    no db connection because it cannot read the damn file.

    If you changed permissions on the wp-includes DIRECTORY .. it MUST be 755 as well for ANTHING in that dir to be usable by Apache.
    Additionally, if anything inside that particualr directory besides wp-db.php is NOT 644, chmod those files to 644 as well

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    Yup – wp-content/themes is 755… still blank ??

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