CHMOD 666 difficulties (msg folder)

[Patrick]

Script URL:http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abcj696/ ... mboard.php
Version of script:1.3
Hosting company:City University
URL of phpinfo.php:http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abcj696/ ... hpinfo.php
URL of session_test.php:http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abcj696/ ... n_test.php
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Hi, if I try to add a new topic I get the error
Couldn't create file "msg/9.html"! Please CHMOD the "msg" folder to 666 (rw-rw-rw)!
My ftp client doesn't let you CHMOD numerically but I've changed the properties to enable Read and Write in all three groups; this should be rw-rw-rw, right? I've done the same for the other files that should have these permissions. Can't see what else to do.
thanks for any help.

[Klemen]

Hi,

Try to chmod the msg folder to "read, write, execute" for all (owner, group, others). Or numerically that would be 777 (rwxrwxrwx)

[Patrick]

That fixed it, thanks a lot. It's great to be able to stick up a simple message board without having to faff around with databases. Is there any way to edit or remove comments? I tried downloading the html files in the msg folder but get a file transfer error. Maybe an error with my ftp client?
cheers

[Klemen]

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