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I am trying to install UseBB and get the following error:

In file functions_admin.php on line 389:

E_WARNING - fopen(../config.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

I have checked my permissions and I have R/W for the directory and config.php. Any suggestions as to what the problem is?

For the (forum) directory it should be chmodded to 755 and for config.php chmodded to 777, I think, thats what mine is anyway.

I should have added that I'm installing on IIS 5, so CHMOD isn't used.

Sorry, can not help with IIS.

Could try Xampp.

I had no problems installing it on my development server, which also has IIS 5. The configurations seem to be the same.

Woops... http//www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

I know nothing about IIS, sure there is someone here knows.

I also don't know much about IIS, but, wouldn't you need something else other then just R/W? Like Execute or Modify? So Read/Write/Execute, kind of like the equivalent of 777.

No. In Windows you don't need CHMOD. That's only for Unix/Linux. Permissions won't work under Windows, but you won't need them. Even if you use Apache under Windows, permissions won't work.

Possible solution here.

There must be something wrong with the permissions, there is a check in the code to see whether config.php is writable and it seems to have passed on your system, however you still get a permission denied error when trying to open the file on line 389.