How can I CHMOD files/directories on Windows Azure?

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SuperDistros.com picture SuperDistros.com · Apr 16, 2013 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I am using FileZilla FTP to right click and change a directories File Permissions as I do on many other sites/servers. For some reason this is not working in Windows Azure. It outputs in FileZilla "500 'SITE CHMOD 777 (mydirectory)': command not understood"

Any ideas?

Answer

James White picture James White · Aug 6, 2015

The Windows Azure portal has a "Console" for websites where you can execute some shell commands. One of them appears to be chmod (fileutils) 4.1. I was able to modify the permissions on a folder using this:

chmod -R 744 myfolder

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