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Re: Website Hacking Problems

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Check the file/folder permissions of the root directory. If it's are listed as 777, this is a security problem. Change (chmod) them to 770 or 755. You can create subfolders with a chmod setting of 777, but only do so where your scripts actually need file creation/deletion/alteration permissions. If all you have in a directory is static HTML files that you alter via FTP, lock down the file permissions for that directory.
I take it you mean it is very bad if our httpdocs folder is set to 777? I'm sorry I don't know more about this kinda stuff, so thanks for any help you can give us!

[EDIT] I chmod(ed) it to 755
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