the front page is superficially good that is what counts, but I got the bright idea of chmodding all my directories to 644.(I fixed enough that the front page functions and am not using forums or many other of the features for that matter)

I have a nuke site that ws hacked and defaced last year and was kind of a pain to fix as the got in thru my news.

anyway my question is is there a way fpr me to reinstall XOOPS with out losing my mods or database or is there a default table of permissions somewhere I can use as a reference?

Thnks for any help.

feeling like noobie.

RH

For the root directory of your site:
- CHmod all your directories to 755
..except for cache, templates_c and upload which are 777.


If this also concerns all your subdirectories:

Well most subdirs are also 755. If you have some modules with their own upload directories and stuff this might be different. But after all there won't be many directories which need to be changed.

- i would change all of them to 755
- then if neccessary do a 2nd XOOPS installation (into a different directory connected to a subdomain, different database names(!) ...) with the same modules you are using and check there for different permissions.
- if there are differences ... adapt them
- when done you just might delete the second installation