I just installed vanilla and changed the webpath in the settings to test that function. But now I can't access the whole thing anymore and trying to change the webpath back to the original webpath doesn't work since the files are looking at the wrong place!!
thanks, I already tried that within the settings.php file that is in the directory called appg... doesn't work somehow? in the conf directory there is no such file
do I need to chance all aother path/to/vanilla items as well?
As it says at the top of the file, you should never edit the appg/settings.php file. That file defines the configuration settings, but your customizations to those settings are applied in the conf/settings.php file. If you see something in the appg/settings.php file that you want to change, copy that line into conf/settings.php and edit it there.
The reason for this is: when you perform upgrades to Vanilla, you can copy and paste the new files on top of the old ones and the appg/settings.php file will be replaced, but the conf-folder files will not.
i changed it all back in the appg file. thanks again for your kind help, but I can't retrieve, copy or change the settings.php file in the conf dir as that has been created by the server (apache) and is thus set to chmod 600. Maybe I'll just try a reinstall in this case.
That's an interesting problem. I've never run into that before - I guess because I manage all of my own servers.
You can, of course, contact your hosting company and get them to chown the file back to you - then you can just chmod it so Vanilla can still work with it.
yeah I tried that but they didn't reply in the weekend - i just reinstalled the whole thing. It must be due to some overly protective security settings they have, but it's solved now.