Title: CHMOD issue? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # CHMOD issue? * [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/) * My webhost did something and SCREWED all the permissons and stuff up. * Now, I can make a post on my blog but if I want to edit it, I cannot!!! It acts like I did, but when you look at the page, it didn’t. * I have no idea where to begin. I’ve tried setting some things to 777 but nothing is allowing me to fix those posts. * I also cannot use kitten’s spamminator now becasue I end up getting errors. * Please help. Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139575) * Since WP stores all your posts in a mysql database rather than HTML files; setting everything to 777 isn’t going to help. It sounds like your rights on your database have been mucked up. * As for the errors with spamminator: what version of the plugin do you have? And what version of WP? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139585) * And what kind of errors? * Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139589) * Version 1.2 * The error I can’t get to right now becasue firefox has all of my settings and has decided to take a dump on me. * And… * I CAN’T LOGIN WITH IE!!! (Of course not! because somehow something is WRONG) * This all happend after the up to PHP5 OOP! back down to 4 stuff! * Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139605) * Here is the kitten’s spam words error: * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare mk_insert_gui_widget() (previously declared in / home/tekwh0re/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/kittensspamwords.php:80) in / home/tekwh0re/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/kittensspamwords.php on line 86 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139634) * First, disable Spaminator (if you can’t get to the plugin panel, just delete the file). Then, upgrade to WP v1.2.2: [http://wordpress.org/development/2004/12/one-point-two-two/](http://wordpress.org/development/2004/12/one-point-two-two/) * Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139676) * Ah. * Well that is a no go. I cannot update wordpress at this time. That would mess up all the work that is there now. * [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/) * (@dianev) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139678) * If I could make a suggestion: I keep a running record of the files I’ve modified( including how) so that if I have to redo anything — or upgrade — I’m not stuck with having to remember. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139688) * What work have you done that would be destroyed? * Here are the upgrade instructions: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress) * Here are the change logs for v1.2.x: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.2](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.2) * [chuckblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckblue/) * (@chuckblue) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139692) * make sure your browser has cookies turned on. * Kept me out a couple of times of my blogs. * [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/) * (@manzabar) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139796) * [@tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/), other people have reported in these forums that WP 1.2 doesn’t play well with PHP5, though I’ve heard that the nightlies for WP 1.5 work somewhat better. NOTE: I’m not running either PHP5 or WP 1.5; so I can’t confirm that. Still, since you’re not interested in upgrading WP from 1.2 to 1.2.2; I’d recommend you stick with PHP4 (4.3.10 or later would be best for security). * Since you can’t login using IE; you should try deleting all your temporary internet files and cookies (or at least the cookies for your site) and then try logging in again. If that doesn’t work; we’ll need to know what error(s) you’re getting when you try. * Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139818) * I’d love to go to 1.5 and I am testing it out and working on it in another directory. * I have no control over what version of PHP the host uses. * I was finally able to get my FireFox working properly again (I swear it just went CRAZY- had to uninstall and reinstall). * I bitched at my webhost again and now kitten’s spam words are working again so maybe they did something with the permissions on the server again. * Trust me, I really want to go over to 1.5 but since I am going to really be locking down my website at the same time, I need to get viewlevel and coppermine to intergrate seamlessly before I upgrade. * Thanks for all your suggestions and help! =) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139870) * Knowing how support of plugins vs. different WP versions goes, you may want to get viewlevel and coppermine to intergrate seamlessly after you upgrade. * [twistedemotions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twistedemotions/) * (@twistedemotions) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139952) * Tried out just throwing the old viewlevel and wordpress 1.5 together. * Sorta works. You have to not be using a calender (as I don’t know how to fix that). * For some reason it hides the post but displays the “Sorry, you need to be logged in to see this post” message regardless of what I set $private_message variable to. Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘CHMOD issue?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 13 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [twistedemotions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twistedemotions/) * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-issue/#post-139952) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics