Title: Unmanaged Hosting – WordPress transfer
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Unmanaged Hosting – WordPress transfer

 *  [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * (@grimpanda)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/)
 * Hey all,
 *  I recently moved my site to an unmanaged server. IE I have complete control 
   over the server, it is not shared. I’m having a horrible time with permissions
   however. I’m fairly certain it’s an apache directive or php.ini problem. I’ve
   spent a couple hours searching for solutions, none of them work.
 * So far:
 * 1) Moved entire site. It’s up and running no issues.
    2) All files are 644 and
   dir’s 755. 3) All files are owned by my username. 4) My user is also a part of
   the www-data group 5) PHP safe_mode is off.
 * `chmod -R 777 uploads` (for testing) brings no joy, problem remains.
    This is
   why I believe it’s in my apache setup.
 * Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Apache2, PHP-FTM w/fastCGI. Does anyone 
   have a common fix for these symptoms?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832452)
 * Try changing the permissions on the **wp-content** directory to 766. If you still
   have problems, try 767, 775 or 777. Once your uploads are working, change the
   permissions on wp-content back to 755 again and check that everything still works
   OK.
 *  Thread Starter [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * (@grimpanda)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832456)
 * I chmodded uploads/* to 777 for this test.
 * Using wp-content at 766, 767, 775, and 777 no joy.
 * relevant screens:
 * Changing perms:
    [http://grab.by/npOw](http://grab.by/npOw)
 * Attempts to upload after each try:
    [http://grab.by/npOy](http://grab.by/npOy)
 * O]
 *  Thread Starter [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * (@grimpanda)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832458)
 * Looking at my own screenshots… I realized I was editing my main wordpress and
   not the client one… doh (let me see if that was all)
 * EDIT: Ensuring I am in the right directory now, the problem continues.
 *  Thread Starter [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * (@grimpanda)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832466)
 * Still testing, I got wp-content(777) and uploads/*(777) to work, but switching
   wp-content back to 755 brought it to a halt again. Also I noticed WP is running
   as www-data and not my username.. how do I change that?
 * On my shared hosting server everything in wp-content is 755/644 appropriately
   under my acct username. I would like to be able to have those same perms in my
   VPS.
 * wp-content 775 and uploads 777 are the lowest perms allowed where I can upload.
 * however, now I get 403 errors on all uploaded files.
 *  Thread Starter [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * (@grimpanda)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832511)
 * Fixed: Although I don’t know if this is the best route.
 * chown -R www-data:www-data ./
 * On my wordpress directory worked. All folders are 755 now, and WP uploads new
   files as 666.

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 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)
 * [vps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/vps/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [GrimPanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grimpanda/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unmanaged-hosting-wordpress-transfer/#post-3832511)
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