What Does “chmod” mean, & how can I find out more on File Permissions ?
File Privileges, Permissions, and Protections After you figure out where to put your HTML, Server Side Include commands, and CGI files, the next thing you need to learn is how to enable them so they can be used by the WWW server. File protections also are referred to as file permissions. The file permissions tell the server who has access to your file and whether the file is a simple text file or an executable program. There are three main types of files: directories, text files, and executable files. Because you typically use Perl as your scripting language, your executable CGI programs will be both text and executable files. Directory files are special text files that are executable by the server. These files contain special directives to the server describing to the server where a group of files is located. Each of these file types has three sets of permissions. The permissions are Read, Write and Execute. The Read permission allows the file to be opened for reading, but it cannot b
