How to change your .htacess setting to 766?

[WordpressConsultant]

There are few ways to change your .HTACESS file setting to 766. For the following example, I am using SmartFTP and Filezilla for your reference.

Using SmartFTP
Step 1: Login to you blog using FTP program.
Once you login in successfully, you will see the directory listing.

Setp 2: Look for public_html folder or /www/ shortcut and double click on it.

Step 3: Look for .htacess file, hightlight it and right click on your mouse and select Properties / CHMOD.




Step 4: You will see the small menu pop up and change the number to 766 and press OK.





Using FileZilla
Step 1: Login to you blog using Filezilla program
Once you login in successfully, you will see the directory listing

Setp 2: Look for public_html folder or /www/ shortcut and double click on it.

Step 3: Look for .htacess file, hightlight it and right click on your mouse and select file attributes.




Step 4: You will see the small menu pop up and change the number to 766 and press OK.



That's all, you have changed the setting in .htacsess file and you can repeat the same steps for change any folders and files setting.

P/S: Assume you knew how to access to your host account from FTP program.

[ProfitBlogger]

Thank you Steven, this is great information. I appreciate your efforts

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by TheWordpressGuy

Thank you Steven, this is great information. I appreciate your efforts

You are welcome.

I saw this little basic problem become annoying to many users, so I decided to create a post for this with some pictures explain the how-to.

[jeffrey]

Hi Gobala, Steven

Jeffrey here, just bought Easy Wordpress and finish reading it, installing my plugins and facing the same problem like most forumers here as I noticed.

Just as May highlighted, what should be the permission setting for .htaccess ?

Page 38 indicate "666"
Page 4 in "7 days plan" indicate "777"
Now in the above post by Steven indicate "766"

It's confusing...my understanding...it should be "666", kindly clarify. Thanks.

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by jeffrey

Hi Gobala, Steven

Jeffrey here, just bought Easy Wordpress and finish reading it, installing my plugins and facing the same problem like most forumers here as I noticed.

Just as May highlighted, what should be the permission setting for .htaccess ?

Page 38 indicate "666"
Page 4 in "7 days plan" indicate "777"
Now in the above post by Steven indicate "766"

It's confusing...my understanding...it should be "666", kindly clarify. Thanks.

Hi Jeffrey,

I am glad you have bought the ebook and registered here.

Okay to answer your question, let's look at the image below for the permissions for 3 different access level in the server:



As you can see, I set:
the user at 7 which is read, write & execute.
the group at 6 which is read, write.
the others at 6 which is read, write.

666 setting is not enough for the user to execute the file automatically. You need 766 (for certain file that need re-write automatically when the server perform the cron or posting jobs).

You can set all the access level to 777. That's not problem however, some hosts might not allow you to do that, hence, will drop your setting back to 666 or lower. This will eventually affect the blog running well.

The reason why some hosts not allow is they worry any hackers (if you put 777 settings) can break in your file and do something on it.. and eventually will take up the server resources very much.

From my experience, 766 is sufficient. Unless you put 766 and yet your blog has runtime error, then you set to 776 or 777.

I hope this can help you understand the mechanism.

[ProfitBlogger]

In general, you would want to set the .htaccess files to 666. If you set them to 777 you're allowing outside users or applications to access AND change the file. 766 setting should work ok, similar to 666, as long as "Group" and "Others" cannot execute the file.

I'll standardize this in the Wordpress Adsense System soon. BTW, I'm thinking of making the next version video-based instead.

If that does happen, make sure you're getting all my emails regularly, as all exisitng customers will be able to get the new version for free.

[vpalm]

I'm still having a lot of trouble finding the .htaccess file with smartftp. Looking at the directions I can't see the right directory so I can locate the public_html or www folder where the file is found. Thanks

[WordpressConsultant]

Originally Posted by vpalm

I'm still having a lot of trouble finding the .htaccess file with smartftp. Looking at the directions I can't see the right directory so I can locate the public_html or www folder where the file is found. Thanks

Hi vpalm, I have put up the visual tutorials, please refer to this post!

Also, I have a sticky list about all the common asked questions about wordpress how-to & troubleshooting. You can see what is the most frequent asked question here.

[vpalm]

I've seen the tutorial but i still can't find the file with smartftp. Until i do this i wont be able to use the plugin editor is that right? Can you go over how to use the software in detail please . Thanks

[dlats]

The latest version of wordpress doesn't have any .htaccess files. Trying to change permalinks to a custom setting yields the error message, ".htaccess is not writable." Now I can't see any of the prior posts....

Tried adding an .htaccess with the suggested mod_rewrite code. there's no difference.. same error and no visible posts.