Changing Vista Permissions

We had a lot of issues for Vista users to save to their cgi-bin directory. One solution is to save to the desktop and copy to cgi-bin every time you make a change. That is annoying, but it works.

Jeremy Yanowitz provided this suggestion, which worked for some of you:

  • Run "msconfig" to open System Configuration
  • Under the TOOLS tab, LAUNCH "DISABLE UAC" to eliminate User Account Controls and allow permission changes
  • Reboot the computer for the disable to take effect
  • Right click on the Apache folder, then change the security settings to give myself full permissions
  • After you allow yourself to change permissions, then go in and change them, you can save directly to the Apache folder