Folder permissions

  • Rodrigo

    (@vejapixel)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hello guys,

    I used a backup plugin to do restore my site. At the time of restoration, the plugin showed me that it was not possible to transfer a particular file to a particular folder, because the particular folder was not allowed to do so.

    I realized that this only happened when the folder was root root (see https://screenshot.net/pt/ly1dkfe)

    These folders had this root root permission only when I manually transferred via FTP.

    When right-clicking on the folder and selecting “file permissions”, the permission code was 755 the same as those that had www-data www-data.

    This is normal?
    What is the difference between root root and www-data www-data?

    Thanks,
    Rodrigo

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  • Neil

    (@neilgilmour)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hiya,

    root root tells you that folder is owned by the user called root, who is in the group called root. www-data www-data means a user called www-data in a group called www-data. Your ftp software probably uploaded the files as root by default. Try right-clicking and see if you can change the owner.

    More info on file permissions can be found here https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions.

    Thread Starter Rodrigo

    (@vejapixel)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hello Neil,

    Does that not interfere with permissions? That is, root will not mean that only I owner have access to the page? Is it just an ID?

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