Setting permissions of public_html folder properly

Connect with filezilla and look at the permission column of public_html. It should have the following in the permission column: drwxr-xr-x.

If not:

• highlight the public_html folder and right click (or control click on mac).
• choose "file attributes" or "file permissions"
• In the numeric value box, type 755
• Click Ok

Then reset the permissions of all the contents of the folder:

• highlight all files inside public_html and right click (or control click on mac).
• choose "file attributes" or "file permissions"
• In the numeric value box, type 644
• Click Ok
• check your website again