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From entering your site navigate to your directory using the 'cd' command.
On this site, all html files are located inside 'mainwebsite_html'

Then enter the directory in which you installed WordPress. In this example, the directory is called 'Wordpress'. On your site it may be 'blog' for instance.
After that, enter 'ls' (that's a lowercase L, not a 1 (one))
You will now see a listing of all files and folders in the directory


If you now enter the command 'ls -l' you will see a full listing of all the files and folders, along with the permissions that exists for each one. That command again is lower case L in each case.
It's a long screen, and this screenshot may differ to precisely what you see.
From left to right, the information means this;
-rw-r--r-- means that podz can change (write / modify) the file, but others can only read it. If it were drw-r--r-- it would mean that the file concerned was a directory.
The number 1 (one) means there is one file (a directory may hold more obviously).
Podz is the owner of the file, and Podz is the only person who can change it.
The next numbers refer to file size, date and time it was last changed, and then the filename.


We need to change file permissions, and we do this using the 'chmod' command.
This has 3 elements to it;
chmod - change mode of file
permissions number - tell it which mode to apply
file name - tell it which file to apply it to

In the screenshot below, first the 'ls -l' command has been run on the file 'weblogs.com.changes.cache'. We need this file to be write-able by other than us, so we need to alter the properties to make that so. The README says to alter this file to 666.
The command to chmod the file is used, and then the 'ls -l' command is run again.
This shows that the chmod was successfull.

The 'chmod' command can be run on a single file or a directory