Title: CHMOD Troubleshooting
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CHMOD Troubleshooting

 *  [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * (@sweetchili)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-troubleshooting/)
 * I am trying to change my CHMOD values, but both FTP and Filezilla is not allowing
   me to do this. Can someone help me solve this issue? Thanks.

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 *  [omgitztrey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omgitztrey/)
 * (@omgitztrey)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-troubleshooting/#post-848788)
 * Does your host FTP server even allow changing its properties?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-troubleshooting/#post-848815)
 * if you are the owner of the files, you ought to be able to change the permissions.
   If youre not, and lets say Apache is, you wont be able to.
 * > Does your host FTP server even allow changing its properties?
 * FTP is a protocol that follows the same file standards that any other remote 
   access protocol uses, like, for instance, ssh or telnet. If you cannot change
   the permissions via FTP you cant change them from within a telnet or secure shell
   session. Its a permissions thing, not what is being used to access the files.
 *  Thread Starter [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * (@sweetchili)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-troubleshooting/#post-849009)
 * How to I become owner of the files? Of this is pre-set by my host, meaning if
   I want to change the propoerties I need to change my host??

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 * Last reply from: [sweetchili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweetchili/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-troubleshooting/#post-849009)
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