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Hey guys,
I'm on the Virginia Tech Mini Baja team and I kind of inherited the website from the previous guy. I'm really not familiar with all of this, but I only needed to update some stuff using CMS anyway. I have 2 issues:

1) I tried to upload the calendar module and I believe it reverted back to version 1.0.1 "Oahu".

2) Since yesterday, if I try to go to the website, I get the following message:

The following directories must be writable by the web server:
tmp/cache
tmp/templates_c

Please correct by executing:
chmod 777 tmp/cache
chmod 777 tmp/templates_c
or the equivilent for your platform before continuing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if these are really simple questions but I am stuck with this problem. Thanks again

Greetings,
OK. A couple of questions, and some possible answers...

What version of CMSMS are you running? (shows/ed up in the footer of any of the pages on your site
(also possible to discover by opening the version.php file located in the root "/" of your web site).

What sort of access do you have to your site? If you have direct access, and it's on a *NIX type server
you can goto the root of the site's folder and type: chmod -R 0777 ./tmp
If it's a windows server, you should be able to "right click" on the /tmp folder just inside your web site's
folder from FileManager and change the permissions by ensuring that the "Read Only" box is unchecked.

If you only have access by way of FTP, your ftp client should also easily allow you to change the
permissions on the folders that appear to be a problem.

There is also the problem that the folder(s) may not be OWNED by the webserver (the UID GID - User ID/Group ID)
So if that's the case, you'll need to discover these values and make the changes as appropriate for your
environment.

Sorry, I've probably raised more questions in your mind, than I have answered. But you've provided
precious little information. So I have very little to go by.

If you'd present the following info:

* Operating System & version
* Server Software & version
* PHP version
* CMSMS version

it would go a loooong way to being better able to assist you.


Best wishes.

HEy,

just to help you quick, let me try to make it easy:

It sounds like you need to just set permissions.

THIS IS EASY!

What program do you use to see the files/folders on your site? I ASSUME IT IS A SHELL OR FTP PROGRAM.

Does that make sense to you?

PROBABLY the IT department at your school has a document explaining how. You should just ask them, they will be able to take care of this quick.