WordPress help needed-How do I change permisions to add Catagories/delete posts?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by ih82lose, Feb 17, 2007.

  1. #1
    I have used word-press before and not experianced this problem. I just moved my site to a new server, and I am setting up a word-press blog. I try to delete the first 'hello world' post, I dont have permision. I try to delete the comment, I don't have permision. I try to add a new catagory...yup, I don't have permision.

    Please help me understand what I need to do to fix this. I know how to change permisions of a file, I just don't know which ones to change.

    Thank you in advance for your help!
     
    ih82lose, Feb 17, 2007 IP
  2. darkcrunk

    darkcrunk Banned

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    Hey there . .

    look .. first . .try CHMODing all the files to 777. If it doesnt work, then..





    I can help you out in a bit.. if you want only ..

    PM me your WP account admin user and pass and the URL to your /wp-admin/

    I will login and check things out.

    If its some external problem ( CHMOD or server side ) i will need ftp,sql infos but I will understand if you want to keep those private :)
     
    darkcrunk, Feb 17, 2007 IP
  3. ih82lose

    ih82lose Active Member

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    I would like to know what files in specific. I shouldn't have to do all files...
     
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  4. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Did you *move* the WP blog? Or is this a fresh installation?

    Are you logged in as the admin user when you try to delete the post/create a category?

    Can you post the output of ls -laR in your WP directory?

    (btw, chmod-ing everything to 777 is a *bad, bad* idea, especially if this is on a shared host.)
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Feb 17, 2007 IP
  5. ih82lose

    ih82lose Active Member

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    It is a fresh install, the site was moved. Most of the site is static pages, and one section is wp.

    Yes


    I don't know what this means...
     
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  6. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    Apologies if I was not clear. What I meant was drop to a shell and issue the command

    $ ls -laR
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    and either PM me the output or post it. This will show the permissions on the files in your wordpress directory and subdirectories, and if the fault is a file permissions issue we can let you know which to alter.

    Cheers,
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Feb 17, 2007 IP