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mishkan:
I am having trouble allowing my forum to use custom smileys. Technically, I seem to have everything in place. I've added a new smiley gif to the default directory, and even manually added a reference in the database. My custom fellow even comes up in the admin section where I maintain my smiley set! But I can't throw the switch to make use of it. So, it seems more like a permissions issue than a smiley issue.

I am going to the page for maintaining the default smiley set: "index.php?action=admin;area=smileys;sa=settings"

I try to set the checkbox for Enable customized smileys

When I hit "Save" button, I get the following error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /smf2/index.php on this server.


I am using version 2.0.2. Right now, I have everything set to 777. I can't possibly not have permission to edit anything. What's going on?!?!?!

Any insight you can provide would be deeply appreciated. Thanks much.

MrPhil:
Why is everything 777? That's wrong! Directories should be 755 and files 644. Only grant greater "write" permissions (775, and as last resort, 777) to a specific directory if SMF complains that it is unable to write to that directory. Likewise for files (664, 666). 777 is a security hazard on most servers, and many hosts ban access to "world writable" directories and files (xx7 or xx6).

Another thing that could be happening is your host is running "mod security", and it's falsely seeing certain routine SMF operations as hacks or spam, and stopping them. SMF doesn't need mod security -- turn it off.

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