...and is there any way around it, or am I missing something?

Its a drag having to nag my host to chown everything.

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Problem is, the board is installed by the user who owns Apache; in this case: nobody
If you wish for all these files to belong to you instead, you will need to use the slow method: uncompress install.data locally then upload the files using an FTP client.
It is, unfortunately, one of the limitations of shared Apache configurations.

I am not 100% positive but I believe that if your host used suPHP, the files would belong to the correct user.

Side note: older configs such as this one work well too; however, 'nobody' is NOT a good user to run Apache as. A dedicated 'Apache' user should exist and be used rather than nobody that is shared by many processes.

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thanks for the tip.  going to give it a go now.  i'll let you know how i make out.

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that did it, thanks

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Ah, that's good.

I believe that we should start compiling a list of web hosts that offer good support for auto-install php scripts like nextBBS...care to name yours? Not exactly good as far as auto install but if the board works well after that, they are worth mentioning.

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