Permissions and compat.php

  • Resolved heriz

    (@heriz)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    Oh dear. I just tried to ‘harden’ my WP blog using the security tutorial on this site, and something has gone horribly wrong. I found myself suddenly unable to do anything at all, despite only having changed the said CHMOD permissions to 744. I now receive this error page:

    Warning: main(/…/…/…/…/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/…/public_html/…/wp-settings.php on line 117

    Warning: main(/…/…/…/…/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/…/public_html/…/wp-settings.php on line 117

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/…/…/…/…/wp-includes/compat.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/…/public_html/…/wp-settings.php on line 117

    Line 117 in wp-settings.php being

    require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/compat.php’);

    I’ve now been forced to put a 777 CHMOD on everything to see if it reverses the error. It hasn’t. I’m now unable to move within my admin, and get that error every time I try to do anything.

    Clearly I’ve made a big mistake but does anyone know how to remedy it?

    Huge thanks in advance…

    Lewis

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  • Thread Starter heriz

    (@heriz)

    … and the blog no longer works at all.

    It’s still under construction so it’s not being viewed by anyone yet.

    Thread Starter heriz

    (@heriz)

    Right, sorted… some files/folders in the wp-includes directory were set at 744.

    I’ll just have to be a bit more careful in the future…

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