Finding and Using Free and Easy FTP Programs

Here are some quick and easy steps for using your FTP program to CHMOD a file, or edit its permissions on your Web server:

1. Connect the FTP client to your Web server.

2. Locate the file you want to CHMOD.

3. Open the file attributes for the file.

Right-click the file on your Web server and choose File Permissions. (Your FTP client, if not FileZilla, may use different terminology.)

4. The Change File Attributes window appears, as shown in Figure 2-6.

5. Type the correct file permissions number in the Numeric Value field.

This is the number assigned to the permissions you want to give the file.
Most often, the plugin or theme developer provides you which permis-
sions number to assign to the file or folder; typically, it will be either 644
or 755. (The permissions in Figure 2-6 are assigned the value of 755.)

6. Click OK to save the file.