Performance Warning

[TheListener]

Performance Warning

The cache directory is not writable - this will adversely affect the performance of your forum.

I saw on another topic that the repair settings.php would be required.

What would it do to the appearance of the forum?

Where would I find the file?

[Kays]

What is repair_settings.php?

Also check to see if the "cache" folder is chomded to either 755 or 777 depending on which your host allows.

[TheListener]

The cache folder is set to 755.

[Kays]

755 should be good then

Did running repair_settings.php help?

[TheListener]

Performance Warning

The cache directory is not writable - this will adversely affect the performance of your forum.

I saw on another topic that the repair settings.php would be required.

What would it do to the appearance of the forum?

Where would I find the file?

As previously asked where will I find the file?

Edit: File has been found

[Arantor]

If you go to the link Kays posted, it's the very very first thing in the post.

Appearance - no change to the forum, but it WILL cause slowdowns.

[TheListener]

What should I type in the address bar?

[Arantor]

Have you uploaded it to your server? Did you put it in the same place as SSI.php?

[TheListener]

The file is in the root directory.

[Arantor]

So is that where SSI.php is?

[hadesflames]

Then browse over to it. It should be something like

http://yoursite.com/repair_settings.php

this is of course, assuming that your forum is in the root directory as well. Otherwise the file will not work.

[TheListener]

The Save settings button is not highlighted.

[Arantor]

That's because Settings.php and Settings_bak.php aren't writable - you need to change their permissions in FTP.

[TheListener]

Settings.php cannot be written to by your webserver. Please modify the permissions on this file to allow write access.

Have tried 777 and 755

[Kays]

Settings.php should be 644

[TheListener]

settings.php is on 0644

the others on 0755

[hadesflames]

Switch Settings.php and Settings_bak.php to 777 or 755, then switch it back after you are done.

[TheListener]

Switch Settings.php and Settings_bak.php to 777 or 755, then switch it back after you are done.

done what?

[TheListener]

OK I don't know what happened

BUT

I deleted the file from the root directory looked at the forum after a refresh and everything seems ok.

[Kays]

Glad you got it sorted out.