From deedd01b224f9e404524ba43fd432d94a06c920b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: garvinhicking Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:56:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] be more verbose --- docs/INSTALL | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 1d4c3cc..b2aa4a7 100644 --- 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! ############################################################################### -- 2.39.5