jedson In trying to upgrade a dokuwiki based web site I kept running into permissions problems that I couldn't understand. Among other things, it seemed like I couldn't use ftp to move key files around etc. So I decided to simply delete the program and start over, thinking maybe I could see the point at which the problem emerged. Then I found out I couldn't even delete the program. It was like the cat that kept coming back whatever you did to it. Finally I tracked the problem down to three folders in the cache – which were named 3, 5 and b. Permissions for all three were drwxr-xr-x, but the rub was that the owner was listed as httpd. Checking around showed me that this meant Apache owed them. And only Apache had write privileges. So that seemed to be the problem. As an amateur at all this technical stuff I felt pretty good about this sleuthing around, but still do not know how to get rid of the remnants of these first tries or prevent similar problems when I try to do the upgrade process again. jedson PS I may be gone a couple of days so if you post and I don't respond right off, don't think you are being ignored.
andi I just wrote a little script which will help you to regain control: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:fixperms.php
jedson I must be doing something wrong. I made a file containing the script, and inserted it in the directory with my ftp program. When I tried to open it through the browser I got a message that said “Parse error: Unexpected T_STRING [file address and name] on line 14.” I also tried to run it the host file system using sh and got the message “Cannot open ?php: No such file or directory.” PS If you just wrote this script, then this must be something a number of people run into. jedson