How to change File Permissions using Core FTP

December 18th, 2009

There are times when you would like to change the file or directory permissions for your files or folders. The reason could be security or that some software’s require certain file to be editable.

This can be very simple to achieve using a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. For this article I will be including screen shots from Core FTP which is what I use.

1. Open Core FTP
2. Connect to your website.
3. Once connected, go to the file or folder you wish you change permissions of.
4. Right click on the file or folder and click Properties

File Properties & Permissions

Now from this tab you can change the User, Group and World’s Read… Write and Execute permissions. Just click ok after you are done.

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  2. ArmorGator February 15th, 2010

    I got a problem with this. I’m using Core FTP LE and i’m trying to change the file permissions for CGI-BIN to 755 but whenever I click ok and refresh the remote view by disconnecting and connecting again, it the values have been changed back to 770. Why won’t my change stick? Is it because you can’t change CGI-BIN? I’m trying to do this for a lesson.

  3. Prashant February 16th, 2010

    You can change the permissions of your CGI-BIN but you should NEVER change the permissions on your cgi-bin directory. If you have already changed the permissions of your CGI-BIN, you need to change it back to 775 (rwxrwxr-x) or 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

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