Hey everyone I had this problem in Warty and now Hoary too , I don't know what I'm doing wrong here. My second hard drive is mounted to /sachi and my apache directory is /sachi/webserver. I'm trying to change the permissions of the webserver folder to 777 because I want to use a photo gallery and its saying all its files and folders must be set to 777. First I tried "chmod 777 /sachi/webserver/ -R" nothing happens. Then I followed the guide and opened nautilus as root "sudo nautilus /sachi", I right clicked different folders and went to permissions. It's set as owner has read write execute checked, group has read and execute, and others has read and execute. If I click on the check mark for write, the check appears then disappears which wont' let me change it at all! If I FTP in and try to change it to 777 it says unable to change permission. All th e guides i've read online make it sound so easy saying just use chmod but it does not work at all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks!

I don't know what wrong you are doing, but I would definitely advise not to set the webserver permissions to 777. Anyway, using the command 'chmod -R 777 /path/to/folder' has always worked for me. Again, think of a better option than to open up your entire webserver folder.

It still doesn't work. I'm not going to open the whole directory, just an example. The photo galelry is coppermine, its under /sacehi/webserver/coppermine but the include, albums, etc folders in there need to be 777. I just did what you said and it still doesn't work. I don't know why this won't work, I had the same problem with warty and now with hoary. It's so weird, nothing will work. It's strange even in nautilus it won't let me do it. I really LOVE ubuntu but I always have this problem, I'm writing exactly as said "sudo chmod -R 777 /sachi/webserver/coppermine/include" it doesn't say any confirmation just gives me the prompt but still hjasn't changed

Have you tried using a different syntax? You could use a+rwx (I think that's what you want) instead of 777 and see if that works.

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I figured it out the reason was because it was on my FAT32 slave drive which obviously doesn;t work well wi th permissions. Formatted it EXT3 worked fine, thanks!!!