I cant sus out permissions!!

I am building a web site and i have folders that are created by my php scripts, but the directories these folders are made in won't allow the files to be created, this is a CHMOD permission issue i know, but im using dreamweaver and I need to know how to set my scripts or ME to be the owner of the files,

at the moment if i set the destination directory to CHMOD 777 i can create folders, but these folder have a different owner ID than me so then i can't delete them or even change the CHMOD permissions of them

can anyone shed some light onto this problem

try this syntax
chown ownername filename

you may also have to change the groups ownership
chgrp group filename.

im just offering ideas - let me know if it works for ya...

Hi cheers, but i don't understand how to implement it:

I tried something like this:
($root = destination folder)



also, if i set my owner to be 'alex', then how to i set 'alex' as the owner of all my other directories that already exist, can i do it through dreamweaver?

i don't know how to set the owner in dreamweaver either you see.

cheers,

Alex.

I was just browsing this forum for solutions to get access to a folder cause I had by a mistake given chmod 644 to a folder and didn't know how to retrieve my permission to that folder. But I tried the chmod 777 foldername command and it gave me instant access to the folder I was trying to access. However, when I tried to rm mkdir it wouldn't remove my folder from the directory. Why is that?

- Cheers