Hi erAck!

Thank so much!  Changing the permissions on the admin/themes folder corrected the issue.

http://www.forws.org/RWS_Archive/admin/ … /demo.html

However, it seems that I can only get this (and other things) to work by changing the permissions to 777 for various folders.  Is this as expected?

It feels a bit insecure that have all directories and files set with these open permissions, but is that how it needs to be?

Thanks so much for your reply and continued help!

Karen

Whether you really need directories to be 777 or already 775 or even 755 would do entirely depends on as which unix user your web server runs, if it's identical to your (ftp) user, or in your group, or other user. If in doubt talk to your hoster.

In general, to display a web site the web server needs at least read and access permissions on a directory (r-x or 5) and read permission for files (r-- or 4) and to write to directories as well (when updating a version or in directories where uploads happen) it also needs write permission (so rwx or 7) and for updates files must be writable (rw- or 6).