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language.php and .htaccess?

ericcarlericcarl New
edited May 2008 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
So I'm attempting to edit conf/language.php to change some of the verbiage on my Vanilla forum. I'm altering my files in Dreamweaver and uploading through the file browser, but when I attempt to upload language.php, I get an error about permissions not allowing me to upload the file. There is a .htaccess file in the conf folder with this content: <Limit GET POST PUT> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Limit> Is this somehow limiting Dreamweaver's ability to upload the file? Don't I need to be able to do this to make these verbiage changes? Thanks for any help!

Comments

  • miquelmiquel
    you need enough permissions to write in the conf folder, imho, it's not an issue with .htaccess
  • WandererWanderer
    Hmmm, I would remove that .htaccess file and see if that's what's causing it. You could always put it back.

    Actually, I would rename it, keeping the starting dot where it is.

    By the way, if you are running OS X or Linux, copying this file to your hard disk will cause it to disappear, that's what the dot does.
  • miquelmiquel
    well, on linux you can find it just Ctrl+H ;)
  • WandererWanderer
    You can find it on Mac OS X too (log in as root), I just wanted to keep it simple and not complicate things for the poor guy.
  • miquelmiquel
    I'm too new to the mac world to know all these lil' tricks :(
    step by step..
  • ericcarlericcarl New
    Well, I tried renaming the .htaccess file, didn't make a difference. So I doubled-checked the permissions on language.php, and they are set to 644. When I try to change those, I get an error saying that setting access properties failed.
  • miquelmiquel
    does it output anything more about that error?
  • ericcarlericcarl New
    I'm in Dreamweaver, so all I get is: ============================== Setting access properties failed for: /websiteurl.com/html/forum/conf/language.php For additional information, check the FTP log. ============================== But checking the FTP log doesn't seem to show any details at all about that action.
  • WandererWanderer
    If you can't change the permissions on the language.php file then you are not the "owner" !

    Contact your ISP and get them to change the owner of all the Vanilla files to whatever your user is.

    Posted: Friday, 23 May 2008 at 8:15AM

  • ericcarlericcarl New
    Sounds fun. I'll have to investigate.
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