I've been trying to get magento up and running on my server for a while now with limited success. Here's what I've come up with so far. The only way I have been able to get the css/js files to load is to ssh to the root of my server and run:
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; && find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
I know this is not recommended permission settings but no other settings appear to work.
When trying to add new products I get the spinning wheel of doom and the new product does not save. This also appears to be related to permissions since it looks like product images are being uploaded but again with permissions which are too restrictive to be viewed. The permission the images are created with are 770. Hope the first fix helps someone and any advice as to how to correct this would be appreciated.
