Setting Windows Folder / File permissions in Plesk

Overview

This article describes how to change permissions on files and/or folders in Plesk Windows. You may need to do this if you have migrated your website to Conetix or your web application needs to write to a file or folder it does not have access to.

While you can manually set the permissions via Windows, these changes may be overridden when you request Plesk to reset permissions. If the changes are set via Plesk, they will therefore remain if you ever need to migrate or upgrade the subscription.

Instructions

1. Login to Plesk via your Conetix Control Panel or directly to your VPS directly.
2. Open the File Manager for the domain you’re working on:
   
3. In the file manager, click on the hamburger menu for the file or folder you’re changing and then click Change Permissions:
   
4. Click on the appropriate User from left
   e.g. (IWPG_yourpleskuser)
   
5. Adjust the permissions as required on the right:
   
6. When your changes are made click Save:
    
7. Once saved reload site to confirm your site or application is now working as expected.