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Hi,

The CSS on my site has the status "unwritable." How can I make it writable again? I'm presuming this is what is causing the following error when I attempt to upload with Dreamweaver:

templates\js_earthblog\css\style1.css - error occurred - An FTP error occurred - cannot put style1.css. Access denied. The file may not exist, or there could be a permission problem. Make sure you have proper authorization on the server and the server is properly configured.

File activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not completed.

Files with errors: 1
templates\js_earthblog\css\style1.css

Anybody know what the problem is?

Finished: 5/27/2010 11:09 PM

Tim,

Ah, common problem. In the "remote view" in dreamweaver, right click on the css file (or folder that contains your css file).

Select "Set Permissions".

You should get a window that contains check boxes for read, write and execute privileges.

Make sure that the the "owner" has "read" and "write" checked off.

Click "okay".

You should be good to go. Let me now if that helps!

Note: sometimes it will still say "unwritable" in the Joomla back-end, even though the permissions have been updated. At least I experienced that once before.

Another tip: I don't like updating the CSS in Joomla's admin panel. It tends to mess with the file permissions to say nothing of it being hard to find the code you are looking for. If you have not done so, get the Firefox web developer plug-in. You can view exactly which css rules are affecting what on your web page. Then modify as needed in Dreamweaver (or text editor of your choice).

Hi Matt,

I'm afraid that didn't help. And now, since I also changed the permissions on the remote css folder, I can no longer see the css files there. It will not allow me to change the permissions back to what they were, and advises me to check the FTP log in which I do not see anything intelligible.

Any ideas?

Interesting. Maybe you could tell me what file it is you are trying to edit and what you are trying to do specifically. I'll log into your account and see what is going on.

--Matt

I'm attempting to upload a new version of the style 1 css file in in the js-earthblog template.

Here is a more detailed error message from another FTP software:

When sending custom QUOTE commands to the remote server, one of the commands returned a 400 or higher error code. [21] Additional information: QUOT string not accepted: SITE CHMOD 0755 js_earthblog.
Server has replied: [500] I won't open a connection to 192.168.1.3 (only to 173.75.129.37).

Thanks.

This is definitely a permission issue on the file. To be sure, in the "remote view" of dreamweaver, right click on the CSS file and select "set permissions". Can you confirm that you did that?

But anyways, I will FTP into your site and check it out. Look for another update here soon.

--Matt