Permissions – basics

  • taiz

    (@taiz)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    Website
    Wordpress: 3.0.3
    Theme: Simplr
    FTP client: Filezilla

    Two questions:

    1) I updated WordPress and now I have to change my permissions again so I can edit my theme. I know how to change my permissions. But I don’t know from which files and folders I should change my permissions.

    2) Some of my folders are already 777, is this in any way damaging or undesireable? Or does it not really matter? Should I stand on the WordPress folder and change the permissions to 755 or lower and recurse into subdirectories out of safety?

    I hope I am making sense, I just really don’t know what to do with these permissions.

    Answers are very much appreciated. Please do keep in mind that I am only a beginner when it comes to WordPress.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Marvel Labs

    (@royalprince)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hey buddy,

    Check this out. It will surely help you out.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

    Thread Starter taiz

    (@taiz)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Althought that’s a lot of usefull info, I still don’t know what to do with the following:

    When the permissions to my WordPress folder, recursing into subdirectories, was 766, I could not even login into WordPress.

    Now that I’ve changed the permissions to 777, recursing into subdirectories, I can login again and edit the appearance of my theme. But this isn’t really safe is it?

    So what files do I change to what permissions in a manner that it is safe but that I can also login into WordPress and change the appearance of my theme.

    Thanks in advance.

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