Title: CHMOD error message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# CHMOD error message

 *  [Mark Kehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mak/)
 * (@mak)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-error-message/)
 * Good morning.
 * I am using a theme that includes a cache folder and I need to change the setting
   for that folder (per instructions) to CHMOD 777.
 * I am hosting my own server from home using Vista SP2 and XAMPP setup.
 * I tried various means to changing the CHMOD for that cache folder and have not
   been able to. The very last way I attempted to do it was via the FileZilla program.
 * I located the folder I needed to change permissions on, set it to 777 in the 
   config window and then FileZilla gave me an error message saying:
 * 504 command not implemented for that parameter
 * Via Bing and Google the best explanation of what that really mean is “SITE CHMOD
   is not supported by your FTP server. Contact the adminstrator of your FTP server.”
 * Well, since this is MY home server, wouldn’t that person be me? hehe
 * Any advice or suggestions on what I can do to make this work?
 * I did search for this in many of the CHMOD posts here, so I am not trying to 
   be redundant with asking another CHMOD question. I am sure many of you who help
   others are tired of these questions. I even did a search here at Codex for “504
   command not implemented for that parameter” and there were no search results.
 * I appreciate any help and look forward to your reply.
 * Thanks

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-error-message/#post-1187138)
 * > Well, since this is MY home server, wouldn’t that person be me? hehe
 * yes it would.
 * I believe your answer is right here:
 * [http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=191680](http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=191680)
 * …little past 1/2 way down the page. Google rocks, you know. This forum is great,
   but its not a search engine.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘CHMOD error message’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [chmod](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/chmod/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-error-message/#post-1187138)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics