https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1034051 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/htaccess-0#comment-1197937 <blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p><strong>Maxwell wrote:</strong> So, with a file CHMOD'ed 777, can a user use their browser to manipulate/edit/delete a file without the aid of a file-access script?</p></blockquote> <p>Yep.</p> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:53:38 +0000 mairving comment 1197937 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/htaccess-0#comment-1197919 <p>So, with a file CHMOD'ed 777, can a user use their browser to manipulate/edit/delete a file without the aid of a file-access script?</p> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:29:00 +0000 Maxwell comment 1197919 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/htaccess-0#comment-1197735 <p>a .htaccess is just a text file, used more for blocking and rewriting urls', stop hot linking, custom error pages ...</p> <p>If the file is writable (777) then it can be 'adjusted online', if it blocked (555) it can't be - the numbers are ccmod<br /> handy chmod caculator here - <a href="http://javascriptkit.com/script/script2/chmodcal.shtml" class="bb-url">http://javascriptkit.com/script/script2/chmodcal.shtml</a></p> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:30:11 +0000 Busy comment 1197735 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/htaccess-0#comment-1197723 <p>The HTTP protocol only communicates with the web server. .htaccess files are parsed by the web server BEFORE the server sends any information back to the browser. They are parsed on a per-folder basis. To read more about .htaccess just do a google search and you'll find tons of resources.</p> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:17:11 +0000 dk01 comment 1197723 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net