okay so i chamodded the folder they told me to. /e107_plugins/custom
Now i still cant edit anythhing via the site, eg custom menus, it keeps telling me to chmod my /e107_plugins/custom/ folder. I did it, but i still cannot do anything. Can an admin check if there's something wrong.

Ah wait, i just found out myself it was not your servers but the portal system. You see, whenever i try to update a custom menu, it doesn't work, but when i create a completely new one, it does work. It's strange. Maybe anyone with experience of this program can tell me.

what portal system/program are you using? there are many kinds of such in
existence. we couldn't tell you anything from experience if you don't tell us what
in particular it is you want help with.

with chmodding, i encountered no problems so far with trap17.

e107 version 0.617 from www.e107.org

ok. will download that for testing on my home server to see what features
there are that may not work properly with trap17.

I doubt it's trap17, i think it's the software, btw, i want to transfer a mysql database completely, not just empty tables. So that the data is already input. Does anyone know how to do that?

i suppose you already have a backup of the mysql db you want to move to trap17.
next thing to do is go to your cpanel, go to phpMyAdmin (under site management
tools) then create a db there. after that, select the db you just created (from the
dropdown menu on the left frame), click on the SQL tab (on the right frame),
and from there, browse your backup db to import it. that's it. pat yourself on the
shoulder afterwards

Amazingly enough i don't have a backup. The freesql.org php myadmin is running on version 2.2.0, i executed the query:

# mysqldump -u username -ppassword database_name > FILE.sql

where username is my username of the database, password etc...
It says query exectued successfully but where did the .sql file go? And ps, in their phpmyadmin prog there's no 'export' button. Funny isn't it?

no phpmyadmin export option? that's weird...

anyway, this article should help you in making the backup via mysqldump. don't fail to read more examples on how to backup via mysqldump here.

likewise, this could be useful too in your predicament.