File permissions allow you and others to access each file on your site for reading, writing, and executing. CGI scripts must be made 'executable' in order to function correctly, while HTML files should be 'readable' to everyone by default.
If you need to change file permissions on a particular file or directory, follow these steps with WS-FTP for Windows:
Right click on the file which requires permission alteration. Choose 'chmod (UNIX)' and left click. A window should appear:
Click on the check box next to the what you wish to enable. Access is split into three categories:
- OWNER : you; the owner of the file.
- GROUP : all the other users on the system.
- OTHER : everyone else (people from the outside).