Need to change permissions for a file/folder

In the diagnostics sections in textpattern, it's giving me the erro开发者_如何学运维r:

"File directory path is not writable:...html/textpattern/files" (took out beginning of path)

I changed the permissions for the textpattern folder, and the folder named "files", which is in the root folder not in the textpattern folder, but it's still giving the error. Do I need to change permissions for all enclosed items of the textattern folder and not just the folder itself?

Maybe I got you wrong but I suppose you simply have to change the path to the files folder in your admin panel from "…html/textpattern/files" to "…/html/files".

Assuming you're on a *nix system...

It sounds like you want to change the permissions recursively.

A quick fix might be to change the permissions like so:

chmod -R 777 html/textpattern

This command will go through every folder and file and change its permissions (the -R turns on the recursive bit).

Warning, this is very broad and not a good idea for production.

A better approach would be to change the permissions at a finer level of granularity. Google for "Linux file permissions" or type man chown at the shell.