Magento

If by using Google Base you’re talking about a Froogle/Google Products feed, that would be awesome. A practical must-have for SEO purposes.

That’s exactly what I’m referring to. Without Google Products my site wouldn’t exist. I get 95% of my traffic from it.

Sad - after all this, I changed all my permissions, got MagentoConnect Downloader to work, downloaded the Modern theme…

and am now getting a blank page when I load the front end.

*sigh*

Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to correctly activate a theme?

NathanJ - 20 April 2008 07:43 AM

Sad - after all this, I changed all my permissions, got MagentoConnect Downloader to work, downloaded the Modern theme…

and am now getting a blank page when I load the front end.

*sigh*

Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to correctly activate a theme?

It should work if you fill in “modern” for templates/skin/layout in the backend under design > themes.

Did you refresh or disable the cache?

Any pointers? Thanks…

So which files do I have to set the write permissions for? Am i missing something here? Or do I have to go through every file in magento and set the permissions for each one? That seems a bit far fetched....

I have the same issues, I don’t want to Cmod everything to 777 to make this work. What other ways are there to get Connect to work.

/edit, I pretty much cmodded every folder to 777 and kept all the files to 644.

Maybe i’ll turn this back to the usual settings when Im done with magento connect? what do you guys think.

I cmodded every folder to 777 but magento connect still says Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions.

I also can’t go directly to magento connect from my admin, it gives me a 404 error. So i type in dowloader/index.php to get there.

Any idea how to resolve this? Or what to do? I have the latest version of Magento.

How are you changing the permissions, manually (one by one) like in FTP, or are you doing this via SSH (recursively). To be honest, this is something that you need to do recursively, either with SSH or an FTP program that can do this. Everything has to be set to 777, not just directories:

Nothing more, nothing less.

As I posted here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/5395/#

i would not recommend to change the permission to just about everything recursively as the command that you use might do so.

Here is a command that you can run on your SSH window to CHMOD only the directly and the subdirectories but not the files under those directories:

All you have to do is to go to your magento installation directory on your server through SSH and from that directory type this command:

This will change the permissions of only directory and subdirectories under magento; which changing the permissions on the magento directory itself as you do not need to have it changed.
Obviously it would be better to know exactly which directory(ies) need this fix and only apply this change to them.

I hope this helps.