Magento: custom folder and file permission issue

Question

I put a custom folder inside my magento root folder that i want accessed outside.

Like this:

magento_root/
magento_root/custom_php/
magento_root/customer_php/accessme.php

I want "accessme.php" to be loaded but what happens is that magento seems to search for it in the site itself and shows a 404 error page. How do i allow that to show?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The root cause is the file / folder permissions.

Give custom_php folder and accessme.php file the rights 775 (meaning: execute and read to all; execute, read and write to owner and group).