How can I CHMOD files/directories on Windows Azure?

Question

I am using FileZilla FTP to right click and change a directories File Permissions as I do on many other sites/servers. For some reason this is not working in Windows Azure. It outputs in FileZilla "500 'SITE CHMOD 777 (mydirectory)': command not understood"

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The Windows Azure portal has a "Console" for websites where you can execute some shell commands. One of them appears to be chmod (fileutils) 4.1. I was able to modify the permissions on a folder using this:

chmod -R 744 myfolder

Answer 2

I found a hack solution to delete files on Azure:

1. Stop your website from the management console (https://manage.windowsazure.com)
2. Open up the FTP site in Filezilla
3. Rename the directory that has the problem to anything else (Possibly an optional step, I dont know)
4. Delete the renamed directory
5. Restart your website.

That seems to do it.