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Hi Larry,

I can't do nothing more for you.

Please ask your system administrator or hire someone who can debug your environment.

Hi,

I understand you can't help me any more. One last question and I'll leave you alone.

I think my problems may originate from the way I copied the site to the server. I used WINSCP to copy the downloaded folder from my PC to the server. Then I logged onto the server as myself, changed directory to newly created /var/www/formalms and used 'sudo cp -r /home/lwescott/formalms .' to copy from my home folder to the site folder.

What would be the best way to get the folder onto the server with all the correct permissions and ownership? I am going to remove the formalms folder and try again, but I want to make sure I am doing it properly.

What is the correct way to put the site on the server?

Thanks,

Larry

I can bet the way you put the files on the server is not related with your reported issue.
Anyway, agreed upon the environment (LAMP) the correct way is:

change owner recursively for the root folder to apache user/apache group.
change permission to 755 for folders and 644 for files