Setting Access Rights

Access rights can only be set by the Server Manager for a server instance. Access rights restrict access to files and directories on your web site. In addition to allowing or denying all access rights, you can specify a rule that allows or denies partial access rights. For example, you grant users read-only access rights to your files, so they can view the information, but not change the files.

• All Access Rights is the default and allows or denys all rights

• Only the following rights allow you to select a combination of rights to be allowed or denied:

  • Read allows users to view files, including includes the HTTP methods GET, HEAD, POST, and INDEX

  • Write allows users to change or delete files, including the HTTP methods PUT, DELETE, MKDIR, RMDIR, and MOVE. To delete a file, a user must have both write and delete rights

  • Execute allows users to execute server-side applications, such as CGI programs, Java applets, and agents

  • Delete allows users who also have write privileges to delete files or directories.

  • List allows users to access lists of the files in directories that don’t contain an index.html file.

  • Info allows users to receive information about the URI, for example http_head.