Trouble with FTP

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2005-01-11 12:58am

Hi, I don't seem to be able make a webapage. I keep getting a '403 Forbidden Page' message, even though the FTP thing claims the HTML files have been uploaded.

I use FireFTP with Firefox. The HTML file's made in Notepad.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-11 02:01am

This is more likly a access problem on the webserver.

Do the files upload ok?

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2005-01-11 02:11am

Sounds like a permissions problem. Make sure the files are readable by everyone. I'm not sure how they're changed in your FTP client, but they probably look like this: "-rw-------" and they more than likely need to look more like "-rw-r--r--".

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-11 09:13am

do "chmod 644 [filename]" on your files, they currently aren't set up so that the public can view them.

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2005-01-11 02:32pm

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate your help and assitance.

When I try to change the thing from 744 to 644, it says: "500 CHMOD not understood".

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-11 03:08pm

744 should work as well. Hrm, what are the permissions set to on the directory holding the files?