Just cd to the directory on you server where you want the files and then use wget to download them from moveabletype.

Rad wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 4:35pm:


The second argument is where you want to file to download to and the file name you want it to have.  Since the default is the working directory, I usually just put "./" (without the quotes) meaning "current working path."

Rad wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 4:35pm:


Not sure what you are asking.  wget is the best way to download on the command line using the http protocol.  You could also use a text based browser if you have one installed.  Try "lynx http://moveabletype.org"

The other popular way to transfer files between hosts is scp, but it requires ssh access to both machines.

Rad wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 4:35pm:


man wget
      --user=user
      --password=password

Don't forget about the man pages.

MrMagoo wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 10:58pm:

why not just a period without the slash, since a period means 'current directory', no?

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1247608529

Rad wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 11:27pm:

Sure, you could get curl to do what you want.

Rad wrote on Dec 12^th, 2010 at 11:32pm:


Say the file is named file.tgz.  You want the end file name to be "/current/directory/file.tgz"  If you're in /current/directory, then . = /current/directory  If you just use ., then you are asking the system to name the file /current/directoryfile.tgz, which will cause an error.  ./ will get you what you want.  Try both and see.

You could easily make everything 755 by using chmod.  From the top directory of your modx cms, just run: chmod 755 -R *

"*" is the wildcard meaning 'everything'.  -R is recursive, which means if it hits a subdirectory, it will also run the same command on that subdirectory.

If you need to be picky about files vs directories, its a little trickier.  You could use find.  From the parent directory, run:

find ./ -type d -e chmod 755
find ./ -type f -e chmod 644

The first one finds everything in the current path or below with a file type of 'directory' (-type d.)  For each match, it executes (-e) the chmod command.  The second one is the same except it looks for files with a type "regular file", which will match all your php files, text files, and everything like that.  Make sure you cd to the parent directory of modx before you run this command.  Running it from the root directory will cause you a *huge* headache.

I don't know of any way to tweak the permissions during unzip, but the command above will let you quickly and easily set it.  I would try 644 first for the files.  If it turns out you need 655, you can easily change it.  You always want to be as restrictive as you can for security reasons.

Rad wrote on Dec 26^th, 2010 at 5:20pm:

Maybe not.  What you are executing is the PHP interpreter.  The interpreter takes a text file (your php files) as input.  So as long as the php interpreter has read permission on the php files, it might be ok. 

I can certainly dream up a situation where you would need to give execute permission on the files, but it isn't always necessary.

on the first command, i get error:

invalid predicate '-e'

same thing on the second command.

there's supposed to be a dash before 'type' right?

will try now. thanks.

check out last post this thread:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f34/php-files-not-running-my-server-141481.html

what do you think? you agree? dude sounds like he knows wtf he's talking about, no?

he says ths will give you a 500 server error:

Your PHP scripts are incorrectly set to permission 666 or 777

Your folders or higher level folders are incorrectly 666 or 777

Why error for setting perms HIGHER than necessary?