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joeyjojoshabadoo:
hello all,

fist i'd like to say thanks for the free forum software. After much trial and error, I have it installed on a shared hosting, in the htdocs folder of a wordpress application vault install ( i thought this might be helpful to someone who has wordpress installed through an application vault, and wants SMF 2.02 on their site - it took three different techs at my host to find someone who could knew where the install needed to be). (also, another tip I found out- when you name the forum folder keep it lower case, as the browser is case sensitive)

Anyway, my question is this;

When I was installing SMF, i set everything in the directory to chmod 777, and everything went smoothly.

So now I have everything installed, I want to be as safe as possible- is there a guide anywhere that lays out the optimal individual folder permissions AFTER install? I read somewhere that 777 is ok for everything but this doesn't seem right. As I said though, i'm not sure, and i'm only learning all of this stuff.

(ps- the captcha image for posting on here is an absolute nightmare to read  :))

K@:
Welcome to the ol' nuthouse, Joey!

If you go to Admin>Package Manager>File permissions and set that to "Standard", you won't go far wrong. :)

Whilst I'm here, you may want to have a read through our wiki, to see what sort of weird'n'wonderful things you can do.

http://wiki.simplemachines.org

joeyjojoshabadoo:
hi K@, thanks for coming back to me!

I'm slowly working my way through all that ,thanks a million.

joeyjojoshabadoo:
Hi again all, Looking for a little more help if possible!   :D

i have successfully put the forum on my site. Im using 2.0.2, and the theme is BR Finale by Crip.

So i'm at the point where I think i need to add some MODS, but i really don't know which ones. I realise this is a broad question-

It's a sports forum offshoot of a sports site- can you guys recommend a general list of advised solid mods that will help keep it spam secure, and helpful and as cool as possible, (also I read somewhere I need a GD Mod for avatars?)

Again, I know this is a broad question.

All help greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Shabadoo!

Shambles:
Hey Joey.

You might be better asking that 'broad question' separately from this current topic as it doesn't seem related.

I'm only suggesting this as I, personally, don't normally revisit a topic that no longer interests me - especially once it seems to have been resolved. However, you're opening up a new line of enquiry which I (and potentially others) might miss, as it's unrelated to the original post.

Just trying to help, buddy  :-X

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