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#15016 Locked out of site and admin section after manually changing permissions

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:58 CST

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 08:57 CST

bluenight83

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: 5.3
MySQL version: (5.5.23)
Host: (www.tankmasters.net @hostgator.com)
Admin Tools version: (2.2 stable)

Description of my issue:  I made the mistake of manually changing folder and file permissions to 777 because I couldn't get the joomla core update to 1.5.26 to work!  Now I'm locked out of website and administrator page.  I tried changing permissions back to 755 and 644 through ftp but it seems I am making thing worse!   What should I do??

(BTW, before i screwed up permissions, I would go to update and get ERROR: The archive file is corrupt, truncated or archive parts are missing)

Regards,

Chris

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 09:22 CST

nicholas

You have to use your FTP programme to give all folders 0755 permissions and all files 0644 permissions. FileZilla is very good for this job. You can select all folders, change permissions and in the dialog box it will let you select only folders or only files.

If you can't get this done by yourself you can always ask your host. For them it takes roughly 30 seconds and it's three commands away.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:52 CST

bluenight83

Actually, my problem was that somehow while changing the permissions I accidentally moved the admin/components folder inside another folder!  Yes, it was easy in filezilla.

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:53 CST

bluenight83

So can you please help me with the joomla update error?  Thank you.

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:54 CST

bluenight83

I should be upgrading to J! 2.5 but I at least want to get the latest 1.5 patch for now.

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:58 CST

nicholas

Of course I can. You just need to read the documentation page, under "What happens if I get a message about a truncated or corrupt archive?". That's why I wrote those two paragraphs on that page :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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