If you are getting permission denied when executing files that you believe you have rights to, here are some suggestions. You’ll need sudo access to do the following:
check file ownership:
ls -la
change file ownership:
chown user:group filename
add -R to change directory and everything underneath
check that your files have execute rights.
This is often missing when you upload files from Windows:
ls -la
change rights:
chmod +x filename or chmod +x -R directoryname
finally, check SELinux context.
SELinux context is often messed up when you use a file transfer tool (ie FTP – FileZilla, SCP – WinSCP) to transfer from Windows to Linux.
ls --lcontext or ls -Z
compare your file/directory with other files. If you have no problems executing the other files, use them as the reference context.
chcon -R --reference otherworkingdirectory yourdirectory
Tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)