This tutorial will teach you how to change folder permissions for folders on your web server (web site).

Almost all web servers run Unix or Linux. In these operating systems, the command to change permissions for a folder or file is chmod. Open up your FTP client, navigate to the folder or file of which you need to change the permissions. If you need to allow everyone to write information to a certain file or folder, you typically use 777. In this example, I will change the permissions of a folder to 777, which allows anyone to write information to this folder (this is needed for a lot of websites in which the users can edit certain information). If you are not needing to change the permissions to 777 in your case, then simply keep following the tutorial and substitute any number you want for wherever I use 777.

Now that you've navigated to the file / folder you need to change, right click on it and you'll see an option saying something like "chmod, change permissions, file permissions, edit permissions," etc. In this example, I'm using WS_FTP to change the permissions of a folder called 'userinfo.' If you also wish to use WS_FTP, download here: WS_FTP

In WS_FTP, the option to change the permissions of a file / folder is "chmod (UNIX)." Here you can see me right click the userinfo folder, getting ready to change its permissions to 777:


After clicking the "chmod (UNIX)" option, this window pops up:


To change the folder permissions to 777, I would have to check all 9 boxes because '777' in Unix means that Owner, Group, and Other all have full permissions.

Your FTP client may look slightly different, or allow you to actually enter the number value, like this:


Whatever you case be, either check mark the correct boxes or just enter the desired numerical value. After doing this, press OK, and the file / folder permissions have now been changed.

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