Corey...let me apologize for the length of this first. I got a detailed response as to the problem with the fantasy football script and making it work with the newly applied PHPSuexec on the server. Here's what they think in the script forum:
"Ok guys, apparently I wasn't clear. To understand this you have to understand unix permissions. "777" means read/write/execute to everyone. The first number refers to the owner of the file. The second number refers to the group that owns the file, and the 3rd number refers to "others". 7 means read/write/execute, 5 means read/execute, 4 means read only. Let's say your user is named "maku" and you belong to a user group named "webusers". Any files that maku makes on the system are owned by maku, and the group associated with that file would be webusers. In this scenario, a permission of 755 would give read/write/execute to the OWNER of the file only, and read/execute to the group and to "others". Since this is the maximum permissions you're allowed to use on x10hosting now, this is where the problem lies. The program that php scripts run under, usually "apache", is not run by the user "maku". Apache is unable to write to maku's folders since it doesn't have permissions to do so. Statfink requires that apache is able to write files into your statfink directory to update the scores and write configuration files.
The only way around this, is to allow apache to "own" the folders that statfink needs to write to. This way, a permission of 755 would work fine. Remember, the first digit of a permission is referring to the permission the owner of a file has on that file. If you make apache the owner of the folder that it needs to write to, then 755 works great. Remember, the concepts presented here are real, but the usernames I talk about are hypothetical. It is common that the username that the web server software runs under is named "apache", but it is not always the case. In any case, it is probably too much of a pain to do this on x10hosting, since I don't think you can change the owner of a file through ftp. Any file you upload or create through ftp will be owned by YOUR user. I know this is somewhat confusing, but to understand what all this 777/755 nonsense means, you have to understand unix file permissions. Setting the ownership of all the files in the directory to your user, as the x10 support guy seems to have done, will work against you. You'd be better to have him change the owner of all the files in your directory to whatever the web server's user name is. This would make it all work."
So it looks like it can/will/should work with 755, but we need to give ownership to the apache server. Can we do this on our own through the cpanel or any other way? Is this something you can do?
Sorry again for the length, but perhaps we're getting close to a solution.
Thanks again,
-Maku
until today and some of the files have to have write permission.