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User Permissions
The default set by your ftp program or your web hosting provider should be okay, but if you or others can't access the page from a browser, check the permissions. When you are first using a site, you want to make sure that the default setting is not 777, or read/write/execute access for everybody. You don't want your readers to be able to randomly change content or run programs on your site.
In general, the only access a user needs to a web page is read access. The main exception to this is scripts (mini-programs) in cgi-bin, which activate things such as mail forms:
numeric setting chmod 644 (set via telnet session to your site) owner group world read write execute read read 1
The most common cgi script setting is 755, which enables your users' browsers to access and execute the script:
chmod 755 owner group world read write execute read execute read execute.
Figure 1 shows how to set this from WS-FTP. Equivalent settings should exist in any FTP application you use; check Help if you can't find this.
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1 Ordinary web page permission check box settings.
The only check box setting activated for public access is Read. (As you can see in Figure 1, in WS_FTP, the setting that controls public access is called Other. In other ftp programs, this setting might be called World or Public.)
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Figure 2 Ordinary
script permission check box settings.
Figure 2 shows how to set an ftp program for access to most common cgi scripts.
The user must be able to execute the script via browser as well as read it; otherwise, the script mail form/counter/guestbook won't work. If you install a script on a site and it won't run, check the permissions to make sure that it can operate. If the script specifies another permission level, use it.