You have a folder public on the server /var/www/site.com/public/ And want to check its permissions without accessing the terminal, using PHP. To do this, run the following command. $folder = '/var/www/site.com/public/'; echo 'Permissions: ' . substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms($folder)), -3); echo 'Owner: ' . posix_getpwuid(fileowner($folder))['name']; echo 'Group: ' . posix_getgrgid(filegroup($folder))['name']; The result...