Unable to open settings.php for writing

By hoangbien on 27 Sep 2011 at 04:05 UTC

Hello everybody,
when i upload my website to hosting. I config settings.php file, the website run ok. Now i want to change settings.php file. when i edited it, my hosting message "Unable to save your changes" and unable to open settings.php for writing. when i edited by dreamweaver, so i upload by filezilla "Error: Critical file transfer error". How i can change settings.php file.
Please help me,
Thanks,

Comments

Can you see the file

2020media commented 27 September 2011 at 09:54

Can you see the file ownership and permissions on the settings.php file?

How did you upload it in the first place? Was it by FTP?

The file is read-only after

seanray commented 27 September 2011 at 16:08

The file is read-only after the installation, you need to set it to be "Write", then you could modify it.

I set it to be "write", so I can't modify it.

hoangbien commented 28 September 2011 at 02:23

Thanks sianray,
I set it to be "write", but I can't modify it and I don't upload other settings.php file overwrite it.

This issue is definitely

alex_shapka commented 4 October 2011 at 23:45

This issue has definitely something with either file ownership or permission. How do you access your server, ssh or ftp?

Run 'ls -l' and see you have the right ownership and file permissions. If you don't, the run 'chown username.username settings.php' and 'chmod 0755 settings.php'.

If after running these commands you still can not write to the file for some reason, then delete it 'rm settings.php' or move it elsewhere, for example 'mv settings.php ../' and then copy default.settings.php to settings.php 'cp default.settings.php settings.php' and this should make the file available for editing.