Pages and components not saving

[Vlad74]

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If I had to guess, they changed the "user" or owner the httpd server runs as.
You might have to chown everything to be able to use lower permissions.

Hi shawn_a!
I just meet the same problem during and after installation at my hoster.
On home server using Windows and PHP - everything was OK, so I tried to follow the procedure of moving my site to server at my hoster.
When I copied files via the FTP and tried to make a clean install - suddenly the install script gave me an error with CHMOD errors. It couldn't install some files, delete install.php, setup.php and so on.. And generally, could not rename the config file.. So, it's a long story... Changing CHMOD to 777 I installed the CMS... And finally I clear one thing - when I copied files via ftp, FTP-login account is the owner of the files, and when the files were made via web-interface - the owner is "www".. So I had to change chmod to 777 in order to make configuration settings and plugin settings.. It stores data but I have notice in web-interface that it could not save files.
Could you help me or point to where I can read about fixeing this? Read a lot of forum and finally found this theme.
Thanks in advance...