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[Dedicated]

I have a folder in the cgi-bin which is chmod 777 but there are some files which I would like to chmod 777 but can't do it for all files why?

[Palm]

What do you mean you can't?

You can chmod them through shell by typing.

chmod -R 777 foldername (this will chmod everything 777 with int eh folder)

Or you can manually chmod every file in cpanel by clicking on the files and picking the permission option.

[Dedicated]

I have tried that but does not work it let me to chmod 777 for some files but not every file in that folder.

[huck]

Are you doing this at root?

If not, do you own the files?

[Dedicated]

It did work now I forget to put -R before.

Palm you came to the rescue again thank you

[Palm]