The manual says to switch CHMOD back to 705 or 755. I can do either so which should I choose? Also, should CHMOD be the same for the amember and admin folders or should each be different. Since I am the only admin, should the admin folder have all group permissions turned off? I probably should have left the admin folder as is, but I can't remember now if I had changed it or not so I don't know what its settings should be and I am not sure if I should turn group permissions off for the amember folder also. Because I am the only admin, am I safe to assume that turning off all group permissions for the admin folder is the ideal choice? How about the amember folder? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Just have a look to permission on any other folder on your site and you will see default settings for you hosting. Use it. Chmod amember/ and amember/admin/ to default.
Alex, I've noticed that the following directories are all set to 777 writeable access on my server. amember/data amember/templates_c amember/data/new_rewrite Is there anyway to have the script successfully run without these being full 777 read/write access? I'm trying to close all the holes so that hackers don't have a point of entry on my site. Thanks!
This depends on your server configuration. If you have php suexec folder's permissions can be changed to 755 without a problem. If php on your server is executed from different user then your username, you can create these folders from php script and make them to have 755 permissions as well.