Quote Originally Posted by robinast View Post
Thank you, the link was both useful for me and interesting!
After reading through it, I made some more corrections to the permissions: it appeared that both the Spanish and German languages had permissions set to 700 in several places where English had 755. So I changed the permission to match them with the English language. The Zen Cart itself was installed via cPanel and the additional language packages were added through gFTP - may-be that's why the permissions were different for different languages. And as I already had a minor issue seemingly due to this mismatch, I gave the same permissions to other languages as the English language has by default. I think it's safe - unless, of course, there is some permissions-linked issue with the ZC default installation itself (which, I think, is not very likely).

Anyway, I'm just learning now and will not start with the real shop very soon. So, if I make mistakes, I can learn from them without too much pain.

One more question: content of which folders have to be translated to an another language to have the front-end completely (including buttons) in this language? 'includes' and 'admin' - sure, but what else? The back-end translation is not important. The Spanish package has three folders (email, includes, admin), the Russian package has a lot more (but as I understand, not compatible with the v1.5.1). I would need both the Russian and Estonian languages in my future store as well...
Regarding the default installatiion and file/folder permissions, as ihungil commented, there are other "helpers" (documentation) that guide the store owner to properly apply security settings. I again, did not mention these because of thinking that they might be readily available or that only a refresher was needed. Just because the installer walks away with the settings as they are, does not mean that they are to remain that way after installation. From what little I reread about the link I most recently provided, it was indicated that eventually images should be taken down to I think it was 644 to prevent anything from over writing the images with another image. During setup, that would make things difficult because you would have to change the settings to change the image and then change again to "protect" it.

As a minor lesson learned of my own, file permissions may be different than folder permissions. I once made the mistake of making them both the same and had to get my host to restore some settings because I had made it to where I couldn't do what I was trying to do. I can't remember exactly what it was, but as I said a little bit of a lesson learned.