File Permissions and Windows 8

  • I am having trouble uploading and updating wordpress and plugins associated with my site.

    Unfortunately I am not able to login to the ftp of my site through filezilla anymore as after the update my hosting company is not supporting it. So instead I now have the files for ftp hosted on my computer (local host?).

    When on filezilla I was able to select a folder and all associated files and mass change file permissions to 777, update site/add plugin and change the permissions back. Now I am doing this through windows 8 I have to do these files one at a time (which is ridiculous) and so I was wondering if anyone knows how to mass change file permissions through windows 8?

    As you may be able to tell I am COMPLETELY lost and would appreciate any and all help.

    Thank you.

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi,

    I’d rather not go over how to mass change permissions on your system, and instead try to find out what permissions are wrong to begin with, as the WordPress updater should work without you needing to make file adjustments.

    I’m also a little bit curious how you are running your site since you mention Windows 8, are you using a shared host, or hosting the site your self?

    If you are on a shared host, you should ask their support to look into your permission problems and they should be able to fix it so WordPress can update without manual changes being made.

    If you are hosting this your self, what kind of a webserver is it ran off? (I’d also advise against using Windows 8 as a hosting platform, when hosting one of the Windows Server releases should be used for Windows based hosting)

    Thread Starter seanmavor

    (@seanmavor)

    Hi Marius

    Sorry my terminology is wrong. My site is hosted by pulsant. I am just using windows 8 to access the ftp files of the site. Previously I was using filezilla and this had stopped working according to pulsant. It has always been this way just in the past I was able to change my file permissions to allow any updates or the addition of new themes or plugins etc.

    Thank you

    Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi,

    I see, it really does sound like the host should look into setting file permissions properly.

    It sounds even stranger that you can’t use FileZilla to connect to them but can use the built in windows one.

    What happens when you try to use FileZille, are you getting any errors that you could share and we might be able to help identify the problem so you can get back in?

    I don’t think the built in Windows one lets you do mass edits, normally you would do it on a folder and the change would apply to all the content though.

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