FTP, PHP and Hosts.

[PlutoDelic]

First of all guys (whoever understands me, my position and the unfair promises of Hosting Companies) im having a problem, a problem which took my forum down 3-4 times from kiddies who overwrote my index.php.

the simple thing of the problem is, for any reason (im tipping for the host) the PHP can not use the FTP account, i can connect without a problem at my ftp address but PHP cant, in this case, as i know, FTP does not really debug what problems you have, maybe it could tell you that the user or pass is wrong, anyway im not here to complain about protocols, my straight question is, every time i want to switch from Permission Profile Free to Restricted (or from any to any) nothing happens, it just starts to do what i tell it to and after it refreshes theres no sign of DONE or an ERROR (yeap, SMF, we need more debuging/troubleshooting tools).

Since im asking for help here, i tryed to help myself before i came over, i sort of isolated the problem a bit and i hope someone can help me further.

problems guessed.

1. mistyping, how do i type the ftp user? "user" or "user@mysite" or even "[email protected]", im just confused?

2. the host wont let the PHP use the FTP account, if yes, then please just tell me how to blame them cause their support sucks deep.

thanks in advice for your time, if you notice any kind of anger or mistyping in my post, then just think of it that im pissed off from kids attacking my pages and hosts that ignore to much. cheers

PS, if it helps, the problems exists on my SMF 1.1.4 and on my tested SMF 2.0 b3 too. (the problem is generally)

[PlutoDelic]

Anyone???

if it helps...Themes Install fluently, packages upload, but don't install. reading/writing seems to be ok, so could it be Execution?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

For 1. normally ftp logins are just "username" not "username@somewhere"
For 2. I don't know how to actually check for that...

If your forum's log show no errors, then have you checked if your servers access log or errorlog would tell something more detailed? Or does trying to use the permission cleaning even show on either?

[PlutoDelic]

Problem isolated, its 100% the host, it seems like PHP Scripts (even if you type a ftp user) uploads with HTTPD which some hosts dont let it execute stuff on the server...well, poor them, they just lost another customer (Host Excellence) and im getting ready to open a topic on the right place for Hosting Preferations.

LexArma thnx btw

and @ SMF Team, there are newbie's on the world, even people like me that study any other IT related stuff, PHP is sometimes complicated for us (even the whole Web Application world), so a more debugy SMF would be cool.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

LexArma thnx btw

You're welcome, though I didn't do much.