The installation of a custom script
often requires a special file permission; however, please note
that the appropriate permissions are set automatically upon
upload to your cgi-local. However, in some instances it
may still be necessary to set a file or directory permission.
In instances (such as controllable anonymous FTP) whereby a
file or directory's public read or write permissions must be
changed, the File Manager can be used.
However, our recommended FTP client, WSFTP,
can be used to set permissions. With the current version, instead
of directly typing the chmod code, there is a set of check boxes
that you will use to change the permissions.
To change permissions, perform the following steps:
1- Open your FTP program and connect to your
web site.
2- Select the file or the directory on which you want to
change permissions.
3- Click your right mouse button to activate the pop up menu.
4- Select "chmod (UNIX)". A "Remote file
permissions" window will appear.
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5- Select the attributes that you want to set to the file or
directory.
6- Select ok. You have now changed the permissions.
7- You can check the permission settings by clicking the 
button and then clicking the 
button .
If you are using a non-current version of WSFTP, you may need to enter a SITE
string to change permissions as follows:
1- Open the WSFTP program and connect to
your web site.
2- Open the directory that contains the file for which you
want to change permissions.
3- Click your right mouse button to activate the pop up menu.
4- Select "FTP commands" from the FTP Menu.
5- Enter the desired chmod command in the SITE string
command field.
Example
Suppose you were preparing to enable anonymous FTP and you
needed to disable public write access to a file named sample.htm.
As mentioned, the File Manager can be used to accomplish this
task, but for this example, the WSFTP SITE command is used.
The command to set public write access OFF is: chmod
750 <filename>
Follow the instructions above to display the SITE command
field and enter the desired chmod command as shown above
(chmod 750 sample.htm).