warmbells Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Hi all, I have been having trouble with me adserver installation and I have had to install it again. When I go to the adfministratior page I get this message It is possible to edit all settings because the configuration file is not locked, but this could lead to security issues. If you want to secure your system, you need to lock the configuration file for this installation . I am 71 and the grey matter is getting a bit slow, how do I lock the configuration file? Thanks, Gerald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warmbells Posted February 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 I have checked the permissions and they are set to -rw-r--r-- (644) yet it is still showing as unlocked, what else can I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 check permission of all the *.conf.php files in var/ maybe the webserver (apache?) is the file owner and thus writable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warmbells Posted February 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 Thanks for the reply, There is a default.conf.php that is set to 644 also. The var folder is set to 755 is that correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 I know I am bit late for this but just incase for anyone googling this issue: the file owner should not be the webserver. make it chown by root Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTI Media Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 hi, I seem to have the same problem, both files ending with conf.php have permissions set to 644, but I still get the message in admin saying " It is possible to edit all settings because the configuration file is not locked, but this could lead to security issues. If you want to secure your system, you need to lock the configuration file for this installation." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 7:02 AM, OTI Media said: hi, I seem to have the same problem, both files ending with conf.php have permissions set to 644, but I still get the message in admin saying " It is possible to edit all settings because the configuration file is not locked, but this could lead to security issues. If you want to secure your system, you need to lock the configuration file for this installation." Same, my file is also set to 644, how do I "secure" my system? I looked in the help section, and didn't see anything there. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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