Title: File permissions   upgrading
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# File permissions upgrading

 *  [Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rwanwork/)
 * (@rwanwork)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-permissions-upgrading/)
 * Hi all,
 * While upgrading to 4.5 (which I’ve been successful with), I noticed a problem
   with file and directory permissions.
 * If I follow the instructions [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_Permissions),
   only the user can write on the files (assuming, of course, the user is my own
   account and not the Apache2 process).
 * I had to turn on group (Apache2 process) write permissions for the upgrade to
   succeed. Afterwards, I had to turn it off again.
 * Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
 * I noticed for automatic upgrading (described [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#Regarding_Automatic_Updates)),
   files and directories are changed to 0644 and 0755. Does this mean even for automatic
   upgrades, I should turn these permissions back to before the upgrade manually(
   or via some cron job)?
 * Thank you!
 * Ray

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 * [File Permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-permissions/)
 * [upgrading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrading/)

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