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Tutorial: How to set permissions on Unix

This tutorial is written for Windows users who install the Million Dollar Script on Unix based servers. The permissions are set using a free FTP client called 'FileZilla'. You can get FileZilla from here: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Step 1

Fire up FileZilla. FTP into your website. Navigate to your main html documents directory.

Step 2

Set the permissions of the admin/temp directory.

Point and right-click the "pixels" directory with your mouse. Choose 'File Attributes...' from the pop-up menu.

Check all the checkboxes and click OK.

(Right-click the  pixels folder and select 'File attributes...')

(Check all the checkboxes as shown and click OK)

Step 3

Set the permissions of the admin/temp directory.

Navigate to the Million Dollar Script's admin/temp and then right-click the "temp" directory with your mouse. Choose 'File Attributes...' from the pop-up menu.

Check all the checkboxes and click OK.

(In the admin directory: Right-click in temp/  and select File attributes...)

(Check all the checkboxes as shown and click OK)

Step 4

Set the permissions of the config.php file

Right click on config.php and select 'File Attributes...' from the pop-up menu.

Check all the 'Write' checkboxes and click OK.

(Right click on config.php and select 'File Attributes...' from the pop-up menu.)

(Check all the 'Write' checkboxes and click OK.)

That's all!

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