How can I CHMOD files/directories on Windows Azure?

Question

I am using FileZilla FTP to right click and change a directories File Permissions as I do on many other sites/servers. For some reason this is not working in Windows Azure. It outputs in FileZilla "500 'SITE CHMOD 777 (mydirectory)': command not understood"

Any ideas?

Windows filesystem permissions don't work like that. – SLaks Apr 16 '13 at 15:20 — SLaks, Apr 16 '13 at 15:20
You're misunderstanding relative paths. – SLaks Apr 18 '13 at 14:50 — SLaks, Apr 18 '13 at 14:50

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:26

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The Windows Azure portal has a "Console" for websites where you can execute some shell commands. One of them appears to be chmod (fileutils) 4.1. I was able to modify the permissions on a folder using this:

chmod -R 744 myfolder

answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:26

James White

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 08:02

Windows Azure Websites is a Windows Server based server. Thus, file permissions don't work like in Linux (as @SLaks already mentioned).

However, the account your scripts (PHP/ASP.NET/node.js) are executed under has full access to the folder /site/wwwroot, as does your FTP user. Meaning that from your PHP you can do all fully privileged file access operations - Read, Write, Delete, Create, Create directories. What you cannot do, and cannot be changed, is to execute scripts (which 0777 would give you in Linux).

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '13 at 13:22

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I found a hack solution to delete files on Azure:

Stop your website from the management console (https://manage.windowsazure.com)
Open up the FTP site in Filezilla
Rename the directory that has the problem to anything else (Possibly an optional step, I dont know)
Delete the renamed directory
Restart your website.

That seems to do it.

answered May 11 '13 at 13:22

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This works very well, I wouldn't even call it a HACK . . . a bit inconvenient though. – DevKev Sep 27 '13 at 14:35
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While this is a solution for deleting files, this doesn't answer the question. – Southerneer Mar 17 '14 at 06:51
Why the heck would you want to delete the folder in the first place? – Rafael May 28 '18 at 08:16

How can I CHMOD files/directories on Windows Azure?

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