Whatever the default permission is for folders on your host. For almost every folder. Part of the instructions says you need to change it on /conf/ so the installer can write database connection bits, and I think they don't say to change it back. Yeah you gotta change it back!

On my host all my folders are set to 755 including media stuff. SuPHP rocks! Except a funky thing happened with an addon domain that now the media folders there seem to be ... heck I dunno. It's weird.

Anyway "whatever all your other folders are is what your conf folder should be". You MIGHT need 777 on your media and media/blogs and media/users folders, which actually does open them up to malicious badness, but certainly not on any other folder.

Hello Edb,

Thanks for your help, I got all the permissions fixed correctly and that should be the end of that.

However for some reason, and I'm getting a little weary of the problems, following the hack I see this error on the base-url of my website.

I've reloaded the files and nothing has worked...clues, ideas?

I've created a back up of the database, so maybe I should just delete it all and then import everything to start a fresh, with of course, keeping all the blog postings intact.

Many thanks.

Mark
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Warning: require(/home/www/nickmbab/inc/../skins_adm/conf_error.main.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/www/nickmbab/inc/_main.inc.php on line 164

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/www/nickmbab/inc/../skins_adm/conf_error.main.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/www/nickmbab/inc/_main.inc.php on line 164

I'm getting this error too on a fresh install.
can't figure out what's wrong. Can't get to any part of the site.
Please help

Warning: require(/home/www/bloggr.dk/inc/../skins_adm/conf_error.main.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/bloggr.dk/inc/_main.inc.php on line 164

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/www/bloggr.dk/inc/../skins_adm/conf_error.main.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/www/bloggr.dk/inc/_main.inc.php on line 164

My URL is http://bloggr.dk
b2evo version is 2.4.6 "New Year" 2009-01-12 Stable 3 478 kB

It's not the same error! hardiem83's PHP error said "Permission denied" while yours says "failed to open stream: No such file or directory".
Make sure you've uploaded all files - upload the b2evo files again.

I'll try to do so. :D

I may be way off but I remember seeing this error:

failed to open stream: No such file or directory

when my hosting provider didn't provide http uploads or didn't have them enabled. It's worth asking them. if you continue to have the problem.