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 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, WS_FTP 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 the WSFTP 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.

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.

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.