[RESOLVED] quickie - permissions/retrieving uploaded files

[steerpike]

Hi all,

I have set up a website where visitors can upload files. We then ftp into the server to retrieve those files, however we cannot access them as they are chmod'ed to 600 by default.

How do we gain access to these files, or chmod them when they are first uploaded by the user so we can download them with ftp?

Added note - the server is telling me that the owner of the uploaded files are 'apache',
which I guess is the default set up.

Also tried the chmod command, but had no luck 'permission denied'..

Many thanks for your assistance!

[steerpike]

OK - worked it out eventually - found out I was actually able to use the CHMOD command, but was using it in the wrong place.

Weird, as I hadn't accounted for a situation where you couldn't even access the files through FTP!

Surprised there were no replies to this topic - was my question too vague perhaps?