Changing the ENTIRE folder to 777 is a TERRIBLE idea and a massive security 
risk. I highly suggest you don't do it this way. Assuming you have the 
proper user and groups on the folder, 660 should be sufficient.

On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:28:29 PM UTC-7, Nikhil Agrawal wrote:
>
> Try changing the mode of entire cake folder using chmod to 777
> -R , it will work.
> Pls give the error which is displayed, if it don't work.
> On May 27, 2012 3:23 PM, "Steve Found" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 26/05/12 06:30, Kid Noire wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a total newbie to Cake and believe I've put everything in their
>>> proper folders.  Everything is green on my local host except my tmp
>>> Directory is not writable (yellow)  I have no idea how to set
>>> permissions and have tried chmod in terminal but really not sure even
>>> if I'm doing this part properly.  Any step by step would be much
>>> appreciated.  Thanks!
>>>
>>>  
>> Assuming you are on a linux server running apache2:
>>
>> The easiest (but most unsafe) method is to change to your app directory 
>> and do 'chmod -R 777 tmp' which makes tmp and everything below it readable 
>> and writeable by everyone.
>>
>> A better method is to change group ownership of tmp and everthing below 
>> it to www-data ( or whatever group your apache server runs in ) with 'chgrp 
>> -R www-data tmp' followed by 'chmod -R 774 tmp' This makes tmp read/write 
>> for you and the www-data group but readonly for everyone else
>>
>> If you have access to /etc/apache2 on your system, you could also modify 
>> /etc/apache2/envvars and change 'APACHE_RUN_USER' and 'APACHE_RUN_GROUP' to 
>> be your username and group. This will make the webserver run as you. This 
>> is OK for local systems but you are unlikely to have access to this file in 
>> a hosted environment unless you have your own server.
>>
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