LOL, Yep, this scares the beginners and they will automatically turn to the forum. Heck, it scares me when I see those bright red areas appear. Carl McDade Curtis Nelson wrote:
IMOP this is not a bug but developer error. All directories the are created without user input should be set to 777 so that they can be read
This would be a bug. Under a suEXEC environment, this is giving everyone the ability to read or write the directory, when it'd only require
Morbus Iff wrote: 755.
Giving too many permissions is never a good idea.
Yep. No need to have this directory around if people aren't using the functionality. The real error might be that the config display shows a big red warning about not having the files folder setup when that might be your intent. Perhaps toning down the red warning to just a "No 'files' Folder Set" set would be another option. No need to worry people when they haven't done anything wrong.
-Curtis