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I need to CHMOD on my storage folder

InfinityFree Forum [Unofficial] March 20, 2026
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@dan3008’s explanation is on point. Your website is already fully able to read and write to the directories shown in the installer. The fact that the installer of your website says it doesn’t work is simply the result of the developer of the software incorrectly believing the permissions MUST be 775, even though there is no practical difference between 755 and 775 in most cases. We have disabled chmod on free hosting because we saw a lot of cases where people started to mess with file permissions and ended up locking themselves out of their own files. Meanwhile, in over 10 years of running InfinityFree, there has not been one single case where any website could not work as intended that could be solved by changing file permissions. But one oversight in this decision was that some script developers can be extremely picky about file permissions and claim that directories are not writable even when they are. It’s food for thought for us, but we’re not going to enable this again just like that, and we are not going to make an exception for you. So here is what you could do: * Report this issue to the software developer, that their permissions checks are unnecessarily strict and overly presumptuous, and to consider an alternative way to check whether they can write files. Like, for example, trying to write a file and see if that works. * Install the software using a local Apache/PHP installation first, and then migrating it to our hosting, to bypass the installer checks. * Upgrade to premium hosting, where the chmod functionality is not restricted.

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