Posted by Hoopster on 07/20/06 00:23

I'm using Windows XP and thought that you meant cmd in the run box for
a command shell. I then typed in chmod 777 and the directly, but it
gave me the following error: chmod is not a recognized command. Can I
do this on a windows system?




>Hoopster schreef:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I'm using PHP Designer along with XAMPP and I'm a NOOB.
>>
>> I need to CHMOD a folder on my local hard drive in order to make a PHP
>> script work. How do you do this? I have tried point to the folder with
>> a path, but it doesn't work. I have tried to use the internal FTP
>> Filezilla also but nothing. Any help would be appreciated. I want to
>> try out scripts locally without installing them on my webhost account.
>>
>
>Open a commandshell and type: chmod 777 /full/path/to/folder to give
>everyone read, write and execute rights. Or 666 if you don't need the
>execute rights. If you want to know what you're actually doing using
>chmod, check out this tutorial: http://catcode.com/teachmod/
>Good luck and hth.
>
>Peter.

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