For many of my scripts, the uid (User ID)
that the web server is running under must
either execute (in the case of the perl
scripts) or write or read certain files.
There are several different cases in which
different chmod commands will be used. For
example, any of the perl scripts that must be
placed into the cgi bin, must also be
executable by the web server. This means you
must use:
chmod 755 filename.pl
This allows anyone to read and execute
your file and it allows you the permission to
write to it. Any of the files that are
automatically updated by perl scripts, must
be writable and readable by all, including
the web server uid. Unless you have super
user access, this means setting your files
to:
chmod 777 filename.[html|txt]
This will allow everyone to write to your
files. If you are still confused on this
matter, you must know that to use chmod you
must: 1) Have a unix account, 2) Be able to
telnet to that unix account or dial up into
the account, and 3) be able to use the shell.
If you do not have either of these, you will
need to ask your system administrator how you
can get around using chmod or what you need
to do in order to get it to work.
Form More Information: If you have
a Unix account you can type:
man chmod
or else you can get the man (Manual) pages
off of the web for chmod.
