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WordPress and File Masks

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 at the weekend. Everything seemed to upgrade properly with no database errors, but I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error when I tried to look at the site pages. The error logs contained the answer – error: file is writable by others with a pointer to the main index.php file. This seemed a little odd to me, but I looked at the mask and sure enough, the index.php file (and a whole lot of others) was group-writable. I changed the mask on the directories to 755 from 775, and the files from 664 to 644, and then everything worked just fine.

I also changed the stylesheet; still tweaking but it’s mostly done. Comments welcome!

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  1. soundwolf | Nov 26, 2008 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

    I’m just running around the web, looking for wordpress tweaks. I love this theme too. It is so minimal. Anyways, I’ve browsed your site a bit. It’s wicked cool. I decided to leave a comment on this page, cause its the one I first stumbled upon.

    Cheer Mate

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