CHMOD the following files & folders to 777

[LSainsbury]

Hi,

Installing a new app on my site and it's asking me to

CHMOD the following files & folders to 777

.

How do I complete this when the files are on my site?

[Aragorn]

Are you sure - 777 is writeable by anyone on the system!

Do you have command line access to the system? If you are only allowed to FTP, then you wont be able to change the permissions.

[LSainsbury]

Hi - yes it's 777 when doing the install - it does say change them back when the app is installed.

I don't think I have CMD access to it - btw it's running on a Windows system...

Can CuteFTP change them?

[Flobajob]

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Hi - yes it's 777 when doing the install - it does say change them back when the app is installed.

I don't think I have CMD access to it - btw it's running on a Windows system...

Can CuteFTP change them?

Nearly every FTP client allows you to change permissions on files and folders, just right click the one you want to alter and you'll see either a "CHMOD" or "Permissions" entry on the menu.

[Flobajob]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

FTP shouldn't be allowed to change permissions. If they really need full read/write/exe during the install you may need the site admins to change it

Just out of curiousity, do you deal with a lot of hosting? I think you'll find that pretty much every FTP client and every web host will allow it's users to alter permissions via FTP.

[LSainsbury]

Cool - so which FTP client? Perf free client?!!!

[Flobajob]

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Cool - so which FTP client? Perf free client?!!!

Filezilla is the best free client I've used.

[Strzelecki]

Yes, ftp should be allowed to change it, the host should CHROOT jail you to your home directory so you can only do stuff in that. We do that for our clients, as does every other host I know, it would be pretty useless if they had to contact us every time. CHMOD 0777 may be used on a image folder for example, where a script uploads an image from a webpage.

[Flobajob]

You can also do it using DOS FTP with:

quote SITE chmod XXX filename.ext

where XXX is the CHMOD value

[Graham M]

www.smartftp.com - a great free FTP client that supports CHMOD among other things

[Enuff]

FlashFXP is very good

[willie]

On Windows servers there is no need to chmod any files or folders just make sure that the file or folder is not write protected you can do this the same way as you would on your on windows system.
ie when you login with your ftp client highlight the file right click then select properties.
And by the way yes cuteFTP can do tihis

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by Zeph

www.smartftp.com - a great free FTP client that supports CHMOD among other things

Just installed SmartFTP - but it won't connect... WTF?

Got the correct user id and password - IE will login without issues...

Tried SmartFTP site - logs in ok...

Tried disabling NIS2006....

WFT??

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by Web Junkie

On Windows servers there is no need to chmod any files or folders just make sure that the file or folder is not write protected you can do this the same way as you would on your on windows system.
ie when you login with your ftp client highlight the file right click then select properties.
And by the way yes cuteFTP can do tihis

Yep - I have the Properties / CHMOD options in SmartFTP...they just don't seem to stay at 777...looks like I'll be switching to linux hosting services with my provider...

[willie]

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Yep - I have the Properties / CHMOD options in SmartFTP...they just don't seem to stay at 777...looks like I'll be switching to linux hosting services with my provider...

This is quite correct as in effect the files or folders already have these permissions set so the the app you are installing should work correctly as the chmod commmand is not recognised or needed on windows servers.