[quote author=olorin_spb link=topic=28393.msg1301965#msg1301965 date=1194548049]
[quote author=romuba link=topic=28393.msg1301923#msg1301923 date=1194545796]
I won't even try to solve this problem (I am rather new too this stuff) other than to say that when I had some problems I contacted my hosting company and found that they had to set some permissions before I was able to get the mods (Themes in my instance) to load and install correctly.
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This is what others are saying, but nobody's posted the details.
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Some mods modify files in both Sources and Themes directories, sometimes even index.php in your forum directory. This means that you may have to change permissions throughout your forum directory. To do this, you have to chmod recursively, i.e. all directories and their files, and all subdirectories and their files. For example, if you have:
forum_dir
|
----- Themes
|
----- default
you have to chmod all files and directories inside forum_dir, then all files and directories inside Themes etc. A bit tedious to do it through an FTP program (which usually let you work on one level at a time), but it's easily done if you have shell access to your forum directory. Your hosting provider does (or should) have shell access, so they can change to your forum directory and chmod recursively using the command:
[code]chmod -R 777 *[/code]
where -R stands for "recursively". Depending on your hosting configuration, you may have to use 755 instead of 777.
Package Manager has a very useful option to chmod forum files recursively. Go to Admin > Packages > Options tab and select "All files are writable". Depending on your hosting configuration, this may not work, but chmodding manually through FTP may work.
In order to be able to set file and directory [i]permissions[/i], you may need to set [i]ownerships[/i] (who has access to change permissions). Usually, [b]only your host can modify ownerships[/b]; after they transfer the ownership to you, you can assign proper permissions to your forum files.