joomla meta tags

everytime i try to alter my meta description and keywords from within global configuration i get the following error

An Error has occurred! Unable to open configuration.php file to write.

help

 

sounds like permissions on the file

check via ftp client and chmod it to 666 and try again

 

No need for FTP. There is a tick box in the configuration page over to the right that says 'Override write protection while saving', if you tick that first before saving it will take off protection then immediately put it back on again with your changes saved.

 

thanks you
all working now,but i'll look for that tick box
changed permissions in cpanel to 777 on config php and config php-dist on the advice of a pm.

 

If you leave your config.php on 777 your site will be hacked, so be sure to change it back again afterwards if you're doing it that way.

 

I had what looked to be a similar problem - I could not save any of my configuration settings. I found this post on the joomla forum - http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=265427 and was able to resolve the issue by adding the lines

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

to the htaccess file as suggested.