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Note: If you installed AbanteCart yourself, you likely DO need to modify file permissions. Some files and directories should be "hardened" with stricter permissions, specifically, the /system/config.php and /index.php files. This file should be set with 644 or 640 permissions (440, 444, or 400 depending on your server setup). See video how to check and change permissions AbanteCart system check

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Typically, all files should be owned by your user (FTP) account on your web server, and should be writable by that account. Any file that needs write access from AbanteCart should be owned or group-owned by the user account used by the AbanteCart (which may be different than the server account). For example, you may have a user account that lets you FTP files back and forth to your server, but your server itself may run using a separate user, in a separate user-group, such as Apache or nobody. If AbanteCart is running as the FTP account, that account needs to have write access, i.e., be the owner of the files, or belong to a group that has write access. In the latter case, that would mean permissions are set more permissively than default (for example, 775 rather than 755 for folders, and 664 instead of 644).

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