be more verbose

diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index 1d4c3ccc81263e9ddf47d324c386e898d880bf08..b2aa4a7e31dc3aa55adf0828ac991a7861f5c4d8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
 
 1. Decompress and put this folder somewhere inside your document root
 2. If you want the directory to be called something other than "serendipity",
-change the directory name now
+   change the directory name now
 3. Open serendipity in your browser (installer will say hi to you)
-4. Serendipity ships world-writeable (777) to make installation easier.
+4. Serendipity ships world-writeable (777) to make installation easier
+   (permissions are only preserved on Unix/Linux systems using tar).
 After the install is complete,  you should change the permissions to allow
 only your web-server user (e.g. Nobody) to access the serendipity directory.
 If you have enabled file-upload and/or caching, you need to do something
@@ -19,6 +20,10 @@ like this:
   chmod -R 744 serendipity/
 because the web server needs to be able to write to directories inside the
 distribution.  Otherwise, you should probably chmod -R 644 serendipity.
+Serendipity needs to write to its core directory to be able to create
+the serendipity_config_local.inc.php and .htaccess file. After this has
+been done, the world-writable folder can be set to the sane permissions
+again.
 5. Done!
 
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