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Chmod -R 777 in nginx.conf file not working! - 10 years ago

Hi, all and welcome to my first post. I have just stated using nginx after using Apache for many years, and run into my first problem. I don't know how to apply chmod 777 to a folder in my sites directory? I tried this "chmod -R 777 /folder1/folder2/folder3" ,but it just prevented nginx from starting. I am using windows binaries if any relevance. In essence I want to know how to