Permission Changes not taking

[badmoodp]

I'm trying to change the permissions of 4 of my files from 755 to 777, as them not being 777 seems to be knocking out my forum repeatedly. However, after 2 FTP clients and trying to edit the files directly through the file manager, the changes just won't take.

Am I doing something wrong? Can someone else change these permissions for me by any chance?

 

[bdistler]

Am I doing something wrong?

IF 'permissions' set on any folder or file - in your account - are [ 777 ] - that makes a large security risk - so a x10hosting's free-hosting server will throw an immediate "Access Denied" (403 error code) error to protect itself

make sure all file permissions are 0644 (rw-r--r--) and all folder permissions are 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

 

[badmoodp]

Is there any way to bypass that? I need these folders to be 777, otherwise the site is going to keep going down. This is the help guide I'm trying to follow.

 

[lylex10h]

Did you install phpBB with Softaculous?

 

[badmoodp]

Did you install phpBB with Softaculous?

I... think so? I used x10's automatic script installer, and when I was having troubles earlier with upgrading to 3.2 and had to delete and start over a few times, the uninstaller directed to Softaculous.