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I have an old site that is in danger of being compromised as many of the directories and files have permissions set to 777. However, when I try to change them to 555 via FileZilla I get the error

500 'SITE CHMOD 555 filename': command not understood

Googling it only has issue relavant to connecting to the server, but I can do that, as well as up and downloading files, fine. Im not sure what this means exactly. Is it that my account doesnt have sufficient permissions to make these changes?

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Do you have SSH access? – Josh Mountain Feb 20 at 1:09
@Riboflavin no, just FTP – MeltingDog Feb 20 at 1:13
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Are you on a Windows server? chmod is a unix command. – w3d Feb 20 at 10:10

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Better change the permissions either via your File manager( which should be available in your control panel) or directly via SSH access by using the chmod command.

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Yes was able to do this via control panel. Thanks – MeltingDog Feb 21 at 4:10
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It is likely caused by your web host disallowing the chmod command over FTP. If you have a control panel available through your host I would use that to try to change the folder permissions and see if it works that way.

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