Title: Question about permissions
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Question about permissions

 *  [LostInNetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lostinnetwork/)
 * (@lostinnetwork)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permissions/)
 * Is there a reason for the “drwxrwxrwx apache apache” permissions of the uploads
   folder?
 * Could I make it “drwxrwx— apache apache” instead? An then secure it with .htaccess?
   I am no fan of world writable directories.
 * Is this a WordPress feature, or is this an installatron (etc) feature that my
   web hosting provider should correct?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permissions/#post-496271)
 * Unfortunately, if you want it to upload from inside WP it has to be 777 – otherwise,
   knock it down to 755 and do your uploads manually.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permissions/#post-496278)
 * >  Unfortunately, if you want it to upload from inside WP it has to be 777
 * Not on MY servers! That’s totally dependent upon server config.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permissions/#post-496282)
 * @ handy
    True – not on mine either, but I’ve been corrected so many times I just
   gave up figuring mine was unique. I did it the 1st time per instruction and has
   worked fine at 755 ever since.

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permissions/#post-496282)
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