I like building my own webpages/sites. And using HTML, XHTML, plus CSS are not a problem. I am at the moment in the midst of creating a new football website for myself and friends to share and follow our favourite club. But the one thing that is slowly but surely driving me crazy is "PERMISSIONS" being denied access to a folder or file that i may have only just created. I want a main folder in which to house everything including webpages, a folder for the images and a folder for players profiles. Can anyone tell me how to set the permissions please. I am the only person to have access to this computer and i am running PCLinuxOS 2007. Thanks!

A couple of nice tutorials on setting permissions here:

http://catcode.com/teachmod/

http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/permissions.shtml

One thing to keep in mind is that you create files, and even if they are readable by you, for a web page, the relevant question is "can they be
read by the web server". For simple static content, usually the files you create should be "644" and the directories should be "755". ("directory" is same as "folder").

I'm guessing you are creating files on a hosting service's web server where they told you to create files in a folder called "web" or "public_html", and new folders you create are giving you "Permission Denied" when you try to load them in a web browser? If that's not the scenario, ignore ALL the rest of this. But if that's correct, a quick way to deal with getting existing stuff readable, assuming you have shell
access, is:

#chmod -R o+rx ~/public_html

(or ~/web, whatever folder they told you to create files in. "~" is shorthand for "my home directory").

That will set all files and folders in public_html, recursively, to be readable and executable. It's brute force and overkill (files don't need to be executable). And you'll have to do it everytime you upload something new, so it's not a long term solution. If you're on a hosted site, and your putting up files by ftp, sftp or something similar, is get the "umask" right so that files created in the future get created readable in the first place. If Nimoy's links don't help, ask your site admin, and tell them what software you're using to upload files.