[support] Permission question

[Eric Mckenna]

the user that the webserver runs under should be the owner of directory 
like "files" and such.
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld / 2007/06/13 / 03:00 PM wrote:
>
>   
>> chmod -R g+w *" in my (local sandbox) setup,
>> and everything works fine.
>>     
>
> Hm, I wonder if my ISP is setup differently.  When I saw Drupal admin
> GUI complains 'unable to write', they are set up to 644.  I change them
> to 775 but still error.  Only when I made them 777 the errors
> disappear.  Believe me, I don't like 777.
>
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