http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ bbPress Showcase Topic: BB attachment problem en Sat, 18 May 2013 18:14:40 +0000 http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bb-attachment-problem#post-2832 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:46:06 +0000 _ck_ 2832@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>You need to ask your webhost for help in making a directory for uploads if you don't know how.</p> <p>Unless you've installed other plugins that accept uploads, this kind of setup is different.</p> <p>chmod 777 is something you do to the directory to allow files to be written to it</p> <p>An expert should be able to create it and chmod 777 in less than 10 seconds for you.</p> <p>You can also do this from your FTP program.</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Using_an_FTP_Client" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Using_an_FTP_Client</a> </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bb-attachment-problem#post-2831 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:42:55 +0000 cosfly 2831@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>What is chmod 777? </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bb-attachment-problem#post-2830 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:42:24 +0000 cosfly 2830@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>I installed other more than 10 plugins successfully. So it probably isn't the problem the webhost.</p> <p>I still get the message</p> <p>Attachments<br /> [failed] jj.html (6.2 KB)</p> <p>I don't understand why. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bb-attachment-problem#post-2823 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:17:49 +0000 _ck_ 2823@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>If you do not know how to do this, ask your webhost.</p> <p>The preferered location is above the web root but if the host cannot do that, then it can actually be located anywhere, you'll just have to edit the plugin settings. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bb-attachment-problem#post-2815 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:13:17 +0000 cosfly 2815@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>I downloaded bbPress Attachments (0.2.9) yesterday.</p> <p>I tried to upload to my forum a very small-sized file .</p> <p>After I clicked the 'Upload' button the following was posted.</p> <p>Attachments<br /> [failed] jj.html (6.2 KB)</p> <p>In fact, I don't understand what ck said at <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/installation/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/installation/</a>.</p> <p>He said </p> <p><strong>make a directory /bb-attachments/ ABOVE your webroot ie./home/username/bb-attachments/<br /> chmod 777 the above /bb-attachments/ directory</strong></p> <p>But I don't know what that means. What is chmod? What does it mean to make a directory above my webroot? </p>