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Installing Honey Pots

STEP 3 in instructions

Author: C.Bruce (21 Mar 05 1:14pm)

Hello Everyone:
I know that PHP is on the servers of my host company because I have installed Wordpress. I have done all the steps, uploaded my PHP files and included the links on my webpages. However, I am not sure how to do Step 3 (below) -- activate the script.
Do I need to ask my hosting company to do this step?
Thank you.
C.Bruce

STEP 3: SET THE PERMISSIONS

On most systems, in order for the script to execute its
permissions must be set correctly. On Unix/Linux systems you
can set the scripts' permissions with the following command:

chmod 755 EXAMPLE.php

Re: STEP 3 in instructions

Author: C.Dijkgraaf (21 Mar 05 5:35pm)

chmod is a unix command that means "change mode"
This changes the permissions on a file or directory.

755 in this case would mean that:
7 - Owner can read, write and execute
5 - The group can read and execute, but not write
5 - Everyone else can read and execute, but not write

This can also be expressed as rwxr-xr-x

If your ISP gives you a file manager then see if it gives you permissions to set permissions on the file. Mine actually worked without changing permssions of "rw-r--r--" (probably due to the permission on the folder), so it may be worth just trying to activate without changing these.

Re: STEP 3 in instructions

Author: M.Prince (21 Mar 05 10:12pm)

On most PHP installations you don't need to change the permissions to allow execution, only to ensure that guests can read the file. Try just accessing the honey pot script through your web browser (skipping the chmod step) and see if you get the activation instructions. If you get an "Internal Server Error" then you may have to change the permissions. If you get a page supplied from Project Honey Pot then your permissions are fine.

Re: STEP 3 in instructions

Author: C.Bruce (23 Mar 05 1:21pm)

Thank you both for the detailed responses.

I assume by what was said my script is running because the legal notice appears when I visit the designated page on my website. However, there is no presented email like in the example on the Project Honey Pot website.

C.Bruce

Re: STEP 3 in instructions

Author: M.Prince (23 Mar 05 2:00pm)

The email address is never displayed in a way that human visitors should see it. Sometimes you'll be able to see it if you view the HTML source of the page. Other times there is, in fact, no email address displayed. For example, if we are confident you're not a robot then we don't display an email address.

But the general rule is this: if you see the legal text then everything is working.

Welcome to the Project!