I am a bit over my head and have been building a few websites, I just purchased one which is a XOOPS site..? I logged in and have been looking around. I have a site which I wanted to add the xoop content management. Can I do this as a separate area without changing my whole site? I installed it and thought I changed permissions on a bunch of files it said needed writing permissions. I get this error when it has the option to visit the site.
Error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/templates_c'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user.

What I am looking for is a separate area for articles etc.
This is more information..
An instance of XOOPS was installed on http://wahmse.com
Full installation path: /home/wahmse/public_html/articles
Public URL: http://wahmse.com/articles/
Admin URL: http://wahmse.com/articles/

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Thank you,
April

look at the images on http://upnrunnin.hypermart.net
they will show you how to set the permissions using ie6 and rightclicking on folder then going to properties.

Follow the manual link if you need a blow by blow walk through.

Good luck
Bluestocking

Hmm, still confused. Don't I already have the files on the server? I went over to my other site which uses a template and installed Zoops with no problem. I have Frontpage extensions at wahmse.com and do not use templates, does that have anything to do with it? Or is it simply changing the permissions and I must be missing something?