after copying all files via FTP (using SmartFTP) to the ftp server, I've set all direccories to 777 to get a proper setup.
I've now read the following:
After the install is complete, you should change those base permissions to allow only your web-server user (e.g. nobody) to access the serendipity directory. All subdirectories should be writeable for the web-server user, all the files should be 644, unless otherwise contained in our installation archive.
What does this mean: "All subdirectories should be writeable for the web-server user"? What CHMOD should I execute? Set this to all directories manually?
What does this mean: "all the files should be 644" ? Or better it's almost impossible to set this for all files using SmartFTP without root access to my web location.
I just took a look on my server with s9y running and actually the only directory where s9y/httpd server needs write access is the upload directory. Maybe take a look also for the archives directory.
But everything else can be chmoded to 755 or so (depending on which user is running the httpd daemon and what your own username is).
EDIT:
Clarification needed I felt; you can in other words send raw commands, like chmod, using FlashFXP. Not sure wether it applies to the sub-dirs though.