Nothing Writeable?

[Cheese-Burger]

Being a total coward when it comes to coding, i installed a test download via fantastico which was fine. but when i tried to create another template i got a warning that none of the files were writeable. Can anyone clue me in as to what i need to do please.

[Mack10]

CHMOD 777

[Cheese-Burger]

CHMOD 777

Where and how exactly does one do this?

[JayBachatero]

How do I use chmod?

[Cheese-Burger]

Well i took a good look around, but i still can`t find where to sort this out 

[xenovanis]

You need to connect to your server with a ftp-client. Most ftp-clients, like FileZilla or TotalCommander, have an option to change your filepermissions. Look for something like Attributes, permissions or chmod in your clients menu.

[Cheese-Burger]

Ok i think i`ve got it now lol thanks. My ftp is somewhat odd in its layout.

[JayBachatero]

Ok i think i`ve got it now lol thanks. My ftp is somewhat odd in its layout.

I recommend filezilla
http://filezilla.sf.net

[Cheese-Burger]

Is there another file other than settings.php that needs to be chmodded before i can get another theme?

I`ve set settings.php to 777 and still get the same not writable error.

[xenovanis]

Is your themesdirectory writable?

[Cheese-Burger]

Is your themesdirectory writable?

It says not 
But i cant seem to figure out how to make it writable 

[xenovanis]

The same way you chmodded you Settings.php file, use your ftp-client and set permissions to 777. 

[Cheese-Burger]

The only thing i have in the themes dir is index.php and obviously the two defaults, SMF and YABB.

Unless of course i`m looking in the wrong place lol, which is smftest (name) /themes

[xenovanis]

No, it's the /Themes directory itself that needs to be writable.

[Cheese-Burger]

Ahhhhhhh

And where is that sucker hiding?

[xenovanis]

Well, you clicked on that as you opened it to find the default and classic directories, didn't you?

[Cheese-Burger]

Yes, but it wont let me chmod just the folder, and all that`s in there is index.php 0kbs file.

[xenovanis]

How will it not let you chmod it? Do you get any errormessages if you try? Index.php shouldn't be 0 kb.

[Cheese-Burger]

I just dont get the option to chmod the folder. I can only chmod whats in a folder individually.

[xenovanis]

Strange. I think you should switch to another ftp-client, this one seems to limit you in your options.

Try on of these:
FileZilla
Total Commander