Set them to 777 and don't worry. The only time it's a problem is if you have a crappy host, but I can't explain what specifically would make a host be crappy. All I know is I always set them to 777 and have not had a problem on any installation.

All right. Maybe it would be worth forwarding this thread to whoever is responsible for that help page.

You could edit the help page yourself.

However, 777 is not recommended, but may be necessary. Often the recommended thing is not possible, isn't it?

It seems unwise to change the page without knowing either (a) the intent of the person that wrote it, (b) that the recommendation is wrong, or (c) that the recommendation cannot be followed in the vast majority of cases. So far none of those are clear. Don't you think?

I think I've written it and IMHO it's c): the recommandation cannot be followed in a lot of cases.

I've tried to reword it so it might not leave the wrong impression on some users. Let me know if it could be better worded.

A few suggestions:

More specifically: the PHP process that runs b2evo is not you.

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More specifically: the PHP process that runs b2evo probably does not have the same easy access to your files as you do.

"files/folder" --> "files/folders"
"webserver" --> "web server"

It might also be helpful to explicitly say that _basic_confiig.php does not need to be writeable after installation (if that is true). Knowing that would have helped me a bit during my setup, believe it or not. This is now mentioned near the end (which I like); it might also be helpful to mention it near when the file is first introduced and there is discussion about it needing to be writeable during installation.

Finally, maybe it is worth adding a sentence after the end saying explicitly that these setups may not work with some web server setups, and you might have to use