Changing folder or file permissions

All files on UNIX (including Linux and other UNIX variants) machines have access permissions. These tell the operating system how to deal with requests to access these files. There are three types of access:

Access types are set for three types of user group:

The web server needs to be able to read your web pages in order to be able to display them in a browser. The following permissions need to be set in order for your web site to function properly.

WARNING: It is important that none of your files or folders are writable by anyone else. Any file or folder which is writable by others can be erased by them. Generally there is no problem, just be careful in how you set your permissions.

To change folder or file permissions:

  1. Navigate to the required directory.

  2. Click on the name of the required item.

  3. Click on the permission tick boxes, as required.

  4. Click on the Change Permissions button.

Changing folder permissions