Blog Down: Internal Server/Directory Permissions Error

Hey folks,

Last night I started uploading a plugin, firestats, to my blog. My host is Globat and sometimes their servers are flakey. Last night was one of these times (and this morning!). The upload errored out several times with server connection issues. Finally, I was able to remove and upload the entire firestats folder cleanly.

The WP plugin page saw it, installed it and the FS admin page loaded without any issues. The FS plugin interfaced with my DB and created it’s table(s) without issue. Once installed, I went to see the blog, http://www.damazen.com/blog/, and got this error:

Internal Server Error
The directory containing /blog/index.php cannot be world writable.

I’ve lodged tickets with globat and the FireStats developer, but I thought someone in this forum may have a tip.

I can still load the admin page.

I can not load a copy of the main index.php page.

The Globat servers are still flaky so I can’t upload a fresh copy of the index.php page.

The permissions of the index page look fine:

-rw-r–r– 1 <user> psacln 6019 Jul 12 2006 index.php

as do the permissions of the blog directory:

drwxrwxrwx 5 <user> psacln 4096 Jan 20 01:06 blog

Is this a host server issue? Is it related to the FireStats install? Can I fix this by changing the permissions?

I deactivated FireStats and the issue persists.

Thanks for taking the time to read through all of this.

David