Title: Wrong priviledges after moving
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Wrong priviledges after moving

 *  [Bluealek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluealek/)
 * (@bluealek)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-priviledges-after-moving/)
 * I’ve successfully moved my WordPress site to a new hosting server (the URL remains
   the same), and everything is fine, except one thing – the default prviledges 
   for folders and files (755 and 644) aren’t sufficient for WordPress to be able
   to write to folders and files anymore. In order to make them writable, I have
   to change every folder into 777 and every file into 666. So it seems that the
   server doesn’t know that Worpress is the “owner”. Does anyone know where the 
   problem is?
 * The new server is a privately owned on-line Linux server, it’s not a regular 
   shared hosting of a commercial hosting provider. The owner is willing to help
   resolve this, but needs a hint where to search for a solution.

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 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-priviledges-after-moving/#post-2326639)
 * check who the file owner is, and find out what username the web server is running
   as. it’s probably in the “others” category.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-priviledges-after-moving/#post-2326639)
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