Title: Installing stats.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installing stats.php

 *  [alejandroduarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alejandroduarte/)
 * (@alejandroduarte)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-statsphp/)
 * I’m having trouble installing my first plugin…
 * each time I try to upload stats.php I get this message;
 * “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another. Back to Image Uploading”
 * What am I doing wrong? I’ve never had a blog before so I’m a bit confused.
 * Thanks Alex

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 *  [LostInNetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lostinnetwork/)
 * (@lostinnetwork)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-statsphp/#post-611013)
 * “security guidelines” … “Image Uploading” …
 * Well, is it not supposed to only allow uploading of images? It would be very 
   very dangerous to allow editors and such upload some random code to the system.
   That is why you have the webhotels ADMIN PANEL or the terminal window + secure
   ftp server, SSH + SFTP.
 * Now go to that admin panel (it’s probably at http[s]://yourdomain.com:xxxx, where
   xxxx is some number), log in, locate the file manager / upload tool, upload the
   file, change the permissions to something like “r-xr-x—” or 550.
 *  Thread Starter [alejandroduarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alejandroduarte/)
 * (@alejandroduarte)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-statsphp/#post-611026)
 * Thanks, but where do I get the numbers that represent the xxxxx’s?
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-statsphp/#post-611027)
 * LostInNetwork is telling you to log into your control panel for you hosting provider,
   not the wordpress dashboard but the admin panel where you created the database
   and admin the site. It’s most likely cpanel or something like that.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-statsphp/#post-611027)
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