Go back to your FTP Client and try uploading the saved file again. In the image above, the command sudo service apache2 graceful is executed to restart the server in order for file permission changes to take effect.įor most Apache configurations, run the following restart command: sudo service apache2 gracefulįor Bitnami Apache configurations, run the following restart command: sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

To do this, run the following command: sudo chmod 777 /path/to/file In the image above, the command sudo chmod 777 /etc/apache2/sites-available/nf is executed in order to change the permissions of the nf file from 644 to 777.įor changes to take affect, you will need to restart your Apache server. To fix this problem, you are going to change the file’s permissions from 644 to 777, thereby granting all permissions. As you can see from the image, the file’s permissions are set to 644.īecause the file’s permissions are set to 644, you would not have sufficient permissions to edit the file via FTP. To do this, execute the following command: stat -c '%a %n' /path/to/file In the image above, the command stat -c “%a %n” /etc/apache2/sites-available/nf is used to check the permissions of the nf file. In this example, the user would be checking the permissions of the nf file. Now that you’ve connected to your website via SSH, the first step is to check the permissions of the file you want to edit. Click on the SSH button to connect to your website via SSH. Go to your Compute Engine, then to VM instances to access your VM instance. Go to your Google Cloud homepage and click the hamburger menu in the upper left-hand corner. This requires you to connect to your VM instance using the SSH (Linux Shell) terminal.

In order to fix the problem, you will need to edit the file’s permissions in Google Cloud Platform. Because the user does not have the required permissions to save changes to the nf file, the FTP console is showing Permission denied – File transfer failed. In the image above, the user is attempting to save changes to their website’s nf file via FTP. Permission denied errors occur when you don’t have the required permissions to make changes to a file that you’re trying to edit over FTP. What is a Permission denied error in FTP, and what does it look like?

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