CHMOD 777 and 755 Help!

miscyonline said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Apparently godaddy does things a bit differently than the rest of the world. Instead of the nice simple set up to set things to 777 and 755 and whatever, we have 4 boxes to check. My site requires I set all files to 777 at the start of the upload then set to 755 after the upload is done.

BUT there are four boxes! What is considered 755 in godaddy? I assume 777 is ALL boxes checked, right?

mike42 said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@miscyonline,

The following file permissions would be what you would use with hosting:

Read (Web Visible) is equal to 4.
Write (Web Writable) is equal to 2.
Execute is equal to 1.
No permissions for a user is equal to 0.

Each “column” would be a specific user. The first number is the owner (you), the second is the server, the third is the public.

Setting Directory Permissions with Linux Hosting Accounts

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/2535

Setting Directory Permissions with Windows Hosting Accounts

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/6481

You wouldn’t want to have your site be writable for the public, as that would leave you open to having the content changed, or possibly being hacked. Typically, you would want the site as readable and executable, as that way, changes are not able to be made to the site. (That would be the settings of 755)

–Mike

miscyonline said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@Mike:

Thank you for the response, but that doesn’t quite answer my question. I know I don’t want to make it visible to the world. I simply need to know what the admin/owner settings would be to be equal to 777 and 755.

For example:
When I go to set permissions to 777 (required to being with for the upload to work), which of the owner parts should be checked? All 4 (read, write, execute (file), and execute (directory)) or only the 3 that are. I don’t need to mess with web user permissions (unless I am supposed to mark “execute (file)” in web user).

AND then what do I need of those four to make it equal to 755 for the OWNER? The issue is there’s FOUR boxes instead of 3 (read, write, execute). Is the default (which has all but the “execute (file)” checked) the 755 equivalent?

Sorry for the confusion.

mike42 said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@miscyonline,

Setting a file to settings of 755 would be having Owner permissions of Read, Write, and Execute, and User permissions of Read and Execute. You can normally find those permissions under Advanced Permissions. You can access Advanced Permissions by selecting the file in the File Manager, then clicking on the Permissions icon. You would then need to click on the Advanced Permissions tab.

–Mike

Nate D said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@miscyonline – You would be unable to achieve 777 through the FTP File Manager. You can however do this with an actual FTP client, for example Filezilla is a popular free one.

http://support.godaddy.com/help/104/connecting-to-your-hosting-account-with-filezilla-ftp

Once connected you can right click the appropriate file or folder and change the permissions to 777 so you can perform the installation, as well as 755 when your completed with the installation.

purepower said 4 months, 3 weeks ago:

HI,
Im having the exact same problem.
However when i use filezilla to change the permissions I get a return message saying
Command: SITE CHMOD 777 config.php
Response: 500 ‘SITE CHMOD 777 config.php’: command not understood

Am I doing something wrong?

colgate said 1 week, 4 days ago:

I am receiving the exact same messages as Purepower. Please someone help.