[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zookie

I'm evaluating DownloadsII but may want to check out LDM as well. Can both mods be installed to the same vBulletin forum or does this present a problem? Also, I am hosted on an IIS server. Does this present any problems? Are there any security settings I'd need to have to change for directories?

As I said, I'm presently trying DownloadsII. Can't get it working and am waiting for a reply by the author so thought I'd give LDM a try in the mean time. One area of concern I have with LDM is that I have to change the permissions on the downloads directory making it writeable and executable (chmod 777). Can't do this via FTP on an IIS server so I'm having to ask my host to do it for me. But one poster in the DownloadsII thread remarked that this looked like a huge security hole. I don't know enough about web server security to have an opinion on that. What are your thoughts? Does LDM have a similar requirement?

Thanks!

As far as I know, there is no difficulty in having both mods installed on the same board.

As you say, the directory(ies) in which uploaded files are stored has to be writable by the web server. This should not need 777 permissions and should not create a huge security hole.

Concerning security in general, there is always some trade off between this and functionality. I've written some guidance notes in the wiki, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nd_Server_Load.

Concerning IIS, the only problem that has been reported is when PHP is running in CGI mode. In this case, it's necessary to make a small code change, again described in the wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Site_Configuration