I have installed and am running FreiChatX on a Joomla/jomsocial based website that is being hosted on hostgator. Hostgator apparently has fairly strict settings when it comes to PHP, and will not allow PHP scripts to run in a folder that is writable by anything other than "Owner"... so all folders have to be chmoded to 755.
That becomes a problem when someone tries to send someone else a file. The file cannot be written to the folder, so the other user ends up getting a "file not found" error when they click on the provided link, and if I set the folder to 777 I get a 500 server error, and the error log complains that the folder was set to writable by world or group or whatever.
So the question is, since there are executing PHP scripts in the upload folder which prohibits me from setting the folder to 777, can I either change something in my php.ini file that will relax the restrictions or can I point the actual file upload to something other than the standard upload folder?
I hope that all made sense.
I have installed and am running FreiChatX on a Joomla/jomsocial based website that is being hosted on hostgator. Hostgator apparently has fairly strict settings when it comes to PHP, and will not allow PHP scripts to run in a folder that is writable by anything other than "Owner"... so all folders have to be chmoded to 755.
That becomes a problem when someone tries to send someone else a file. The file cannot be written to the folder, so the other user ends up getting a "file not found" error when they click on the provided link, and if I set the folder to 777 I get a 500 server error, and the error log complains that the folder was set to writable by world or group or whatever.
So the question is, since there are executing PHP scripts in the upload folder which prohibits me from setting the folder to 777, can I either change something in my php.ini file that will relax the restrictions or can I point the actual file upload to something other than the standard upload folder?
I hope that all made sense.
