Hello, I am in the process of testing conversion from phpBB to SMF. In the process I have encountered some errors. The first came in Step 1 with several "not a valid stream resource" errors. I found a post that said to chmod Settings.php to 777 - and that fixed the errors. Should I change the permissions back to 644 now? The next problem was the following:
Converting smileys...
Warning: copy(/home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/Smileys/default/icon_biggrin.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/phpbb2_to_smf.php on line 2589
Warning: copy(/home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/Smileys/default/icon_smile.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/phpbb2_to_smf.php on line 2589
Warning: copy(/home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/Smileys/default/bonk.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/phpbb2_to_smf.php on line 2589
Warning: copy(/home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/Smileys/default/icon_can5.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/phpbb2_to_smf.php on line 2589
Warning: copy(/home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/Smileys/default/icon_sad.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/modstoth/public_html/mttm_forums/phpbb2_to_smf.php on line 2589
... with a lot more errors afterwards - all in Smileys/default. I took this to mean that the Themes/default folder needed to be allowed writing access and changed its permissions to 777 for the conversion - then changed it back to 755. That seemed to fix it as all smileys made it over. Was that the correct thing to do?
Honestly, you should be fine leaving it at 777. See "Why chmod 777 is NOT a security risk".
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=2987.0
-Dan The Man
Thanks - that explains it very well.
Quote from: Celtland on June 13, 2005, 09:05:58 PM
Thanks - that explains it very well.
No problem :).
-Dan The Man