Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file

[Lefuneste]

Hi,

I'm trying to have oscommerce running on a XP development server which contains the following components:
-XP Pro SP1
-Apache 1.3.29
-PHP 4.3.4
-My SQL 4_1.0.17
-osCommerce 2.2 MS2

I've managed to have everything working, except that I get this annoying message at the top of my index.php :
"Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: d:/dataroot/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file. "

Obviously setting the rights with chmod is not really possible with windows. I have tried to set limited rights on this configure.php file (read only for Apache user account only), but I still get the error message. I have tried many other rights settings. The only way to get rid of the error message is to remove completely all the rights on this file, but then I get this other error message :

"Warning: main(includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in d:\dataroot\includes\application_top.php on line 29

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/configure.php' (include_path='.;D:\Dataroot') in d:\dataroot\includes\application_top.php on line 29"

I understand that the server cannot acces the configure.php file anymore.

So...

1/ I guess that the first error message I get DOES NOT come from user rights settings on configure.php.
Can anyone confirm this and give some clues on how to solve this ?

2/ Does anyone have the Windows style translation of CHMOD parameters that need to be set after the install ?

Peace to all in a free world

Lefuneste