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Often times it’s necessary to change the permissions on many files & folders recursively – i.e. change the permisssions on every file & folder.

Todo so, login to your Server via SSH, and run the following commands as root.

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find /home/username/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/username/public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

The first line will change all folders (the “d” specifies directory) to mode 755
The second line will change all files to mode 644.