Permission errors on files after using admin GUI

[scittadini]

Hi all,
Running into a ton of permission issues - but lets start with one. After using the /admin panel to change the global config it changes my configuration.php file to 'read only' does this without fail every single time I change a setting in the global config.

anyone have any insight to what is going on? why is joomla changing the bit of my file?

Thanks
Citti

Setup: windows server 2008 2012 R2 - IIS - PHP (FastCGI)

[toivo]

That is a standard security measure, designed to protect the configuration.php file from unauthorised changes.

[scittadini]

so everytime I want to make a change I need to go into my server and change the status of that file?!?

[Webdongle]

so everytime I want to make a change I need to go into my server and change the status of that file?!?

Not sure about windows server but with Linux Joomla is seen as Owner therefore deletes the configuration.php file and writes a new one with the configuration changes. Unwritable by Owner does not mean not deletable by Owner

[scittadini]

Now we are talking.
Ok so in windows the configuration file actually needed modify access.

Should this be the case for all directories/files that are listed in the System Information -> Directory Permissions tab?
Or is there documentation that lists what exact file permissions need to be? I would not have known that the config file was constantly deleting and re-writing.

Citti

[Webdongle]

... I would not have known that the config file was constantly deleting and re-writing.

I am 99% sure that is what it does. It could be changing permissions saving over the existing file then changing the permissions ... but the information given to me is that Joomla deletes the file.

Google
joomla docs windows server permissions
found
http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_Windows_f ... ns_work%3F
http://docs.joomla.org/IIS#HowTo_config ... ermissions
http://docs.joomla.org/Verifying_permissions