Setting Permissions of Directories and Files
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In order to be visible to other users, your web pages, images, css, etc. all need to have world reaable permission.
To do this (in GNOME):
- Find the file whose permissions you need to change
- Either:
- Right-click the file, and select properties
- Goto the file menu, then properties
- press ALT and ENTER together
- Click on the Permissions tab
- Change Group Access to "Read-only"
- Change Others to "Read-only"
- Click OK
Directories/Folders
In order for folders or directories to be accessible to web users, you need to set the permissions to read and "access-files"
- Find the file whose permissions you need to change
- Either:
- Right-click the file, and select properties
- Goto the file menu, then properties
- press ALT and ENTER together
- Click on the Permissions tab
- Change Group, Folder Access to "Access Files"
- Change Others, Folder Access to "Access Files"
- Click OK