Title: uploads permissions in Windows environment
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# uploads permissions in Windows environment

 *  [jfalberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfalberg/)
 * (@jfalberg)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploads-permissions/)
 * To make a long story short, I managed to do the following in order to get uploads,
   add images to nivo slider, and the Really Simple Captcha plug in to work in a
   Windows IIS environment:
 * 1. Added following line to wp-config.php:
    define(‘UPLOADS’, ‘wp-content/uploads’);
 * 2. Gave Full Control permissions to IIS_IUSRS to the wp-content/uploads folder
   and any subfolders.
 * While this works and all, my concern is that a hacker can perform malicious stuff
   in this uploads section so I was wondering if any upload performances can be 
   done by perhaps the ftp user instead at least?

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploads-permissions/#post-5065431)
 * No. The internet doesn’t work that way. If you’re uploading a file ot a server
   through a website you’re using a HTTP protocol, and the web server is what’s 
   dealing with it. Using FTP is a completely separate process that most web browsers
   don’t have integrated into them.
 * The best thing that you can do is base the permissions on what happens in *nix
   systems. Allow uses to read and write files, but not execute anything in that
   directory.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploads-permissions/#post-5065431)
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