file permissions driving me crazy

  • jamielawrence

    (@jamielawrence)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi all – hope you’re doing well tonight.

    I’m having a crazy time with my file permissions. Basically I want wordpress to have secure access to whatever files it needs (the entirety of wp-content I assume).

    I’m on Rackspace Cloud servers and at the moment I’ve got wp-content owned by my own shell account, and group owned by a group i set up that has my shell account in and also www-data (apache).

    now is 644 sufficient to let wordpress have access to what it needs? i’ve tried every permutation but I really am struggling.

    is there a standard solution for setting up wp-content?

    at the moment i’m tearing my hair out so much, what about making wp-content owned by www-data and set as 700?

    many thanks to anyone who can help me with my problem.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    644 is unlikely to be sufficient if you intend to upload images or files.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    You can try the normally recommended settings to start. 755 on directories, and 644 on files. At some point, ( usually your first media upload ) /wp-content may need to be temporarily writable for wordpress to created the “uploads” folder. Rule of thumb seems to be 755, 644, with anything less just that much better.

    [edit] the commands for setting permissions recursively are in that link too, if you need them.

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