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  • I have NO idea how my permissions for just my home page are showing as 750 instead of 755… nor, do I know where to change them back ??? Anyone? iThemes Security has my home page flagged b/c the permissions for this page are set as 750 and I am afraid this may impact my seo…

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  • Hi ksteele36,

    You may find this link helpful: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions or it maybe more then you are looking for.

    I’m 100% clear on what you mean by “home page” so if you post back for further assistance please elaborate.

    Hope this is helpful for you.
    AJ

    Thread Starter ksteele36

    (@ksteele36)

    Thanks for the reply AJ…. I am quite familiar with file and directory permissions but this is not quite the same I am afraid. Somehow the index.php is producing a home page that has permissions of 750 rather than 755 and I do not know why. It is not a matter of logging into my server, locating a file and changing the permissions for that 1 file as this file (home page) is produced dynamically by wordpress (?) – it is the page I created and directed WordPress to make my primary landing page.
    See a SS of the warning here: click here

    Ksteele36, looks to me like that is the permissions on the root directory for your site not the home page.

    –AJ

    Thread Starter ksteele36

    (@ksteele36)

    Yes. But 750 is the default setting for the public_html directory in cPanel… and 777 is default for www directory.

    Following permissions on cpanel server:

    user home directory 711

    public_html 750

    public_ftp 755

    mail 770

    tmp 755

    etc 750

    cgi-bin 755

    www 777
    ********************************************

    So, the dilemma is how to change the file permission for just the home page? My best guess is that this is a htaccess code snippet or maybe this is a iTheme Security module false positive as I am looking at several published sites now that are all cPanel sites and ALL have the same permissions for the www and public_html directories… so, I am assuming the same home page permissions. Hmmmmm… I think it may be time to call the host to figure this one out.

    AJ, your input is very appreciated. Thank you.

    “K”

    Thread Starter ksteele36

    (@ksteele36)

    Also, this: The difference between 755 and 750 is that 755 gives everybody write permission for the directory, with 750 only the owner and group have write permissions.

    So, I cannot foresee this as a bad thing…. maybe this should be reviewed by iThemes Security and the flag warning removed from their scan results. ???

    Thread Starter ksteele36

    (@ksteele36)

    CORRECTION: 755 permissions is default for public_html

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