Livingdot.net host gives 500 internal server error when making files writable

[Giraffeweb]

I cannot find an answer to this but what do I ask this Livingdot.com webhost that my client wanted to use for her website when I change the file permission to 666 to make the files writable so that snippetmaster will work, it gives a 500 error when viewing the website?  I haven't had this problem in years with a web server when installing snippetmaster. The program installed just fine and I could view the page fine in Snippetmaster to edit it and it appeared to save fine.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.mrtsrecreation.com Port 80

Thanks - Judy

[Jenkinhill]

On the servers I use (United Hosting) if I set directory or file permissions too high then the system stops working with a 500 error. I use nothing higher than 755 for directories and 644 for files and have no problems with SnippetMaster. So maybe it is doing this for a 666 - writable by all is not a good option, and in my experience, is only required on less well configured servers.

[Giraffeweb]

Well, that is interesting.  On my other server I have to change the write permissions because at 644 I get a message in snippetmaster in the editor that the file is not writeable.  I just logged into this snippetmaster installation and was able to change the file just fine at 644.  I am hoping that I will be able to upload into a directory when I put the license in for the pro version but it was not making any sense to me anyway because I have a shopping cart on this site and was not having any problems with updating products, etc.  Thanks for the answer as I would not have moved forward with this project thinking it wouldn't work at 644!