OJS UPLOAD does not work

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Changing all file permissions to 777 opens a security risk.

How should file permissions be set?

There isn’t a straightforward answer because so much depends on your hosting environment. Start with your hosting provider’s documentation and support, or with your system administrator, and with the following instructions: How to set your permissions In general, you want your permissions set such that your webserver can read and write (recursively) to config.inc.php's files_dir, and to ./cache/, and ./public/. Optionally, for added features and reduced security, you can enable write to confi…