Savannah W-ITS

How many times have you read or heard that the fix for a non-working program/web solution is to change the file permissions to 666 (allow user & group & others global read+write) or 777 (global read+write+execute)?
TOO MANY!
Sorry, had to shout a bit.  It is distressing to read such suggestions/fixes – worse, the readers of such [...]

As noted elsewhere I planned to try Drupal a few months back.  This is actually my third look at it – I found it to be less than ready for my needs during previous views (~2003-2006.)  I will attempt to install and use this solution without putting on my TSH (trouble shooting hat.)

With Open Source projects it is quite common to encounter hurdles with even simple things, like installing the

This is probably covered in the Wordpress documentation; the closet discussion I could locate is:

http://codex.wordpress.org/User:ringmaster/Hardening_WordPress

Notes: a) this discussion is for Unix/Linux/BSD type systems, b) PHP version is less than 6 (’safe_mode’ flags will disappear when PHP reaches version 6?), c) you should be able to make these changes using an ftp or SSH connection to your web server.

I can see where dealing with