drupal-permissions.md

#Example Drupal permissions Setup credit: FranCarstens

CPanel User: username Site Root: /home/username/public_html Ownership

• Files and folders username:nobody
• Temporary Folder username:nobody
• Permissions
• Core modules folders 750 RWXR-X---
• Core modules files 640 RW-R-----
• Core themes folders 750 RWXR-X---
• Core themes files 640 RW-R-----
• Contrib modules folders 750 RWXR-X---
• Contrib modules files 640 RW-R-----
• Contrib themes folders 750 RWXR-X---
• Contrib themes files 640 RW-R-----
• Files folders 770 RWXRWX---
• Files files 660 RW-RW----
• Temporary folder 770 RWXRWX---
• Settings file 440 R--R-----
• Settings folder 750 RWXR-X---
• Update ownership for entire site and tmp folder

chown -R username:nobody /home/username/public_html

chown username:nobody /home/username/tmp

Permissions

find /home/username/public_html/modules -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/themes -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/themes -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/all/modules -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/all/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/all/themes -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/all/themes -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/default/files -type d -exec chmod 770 {} +

find /home/username/public_html/sites/default/files -type f -exec chmod 660 {} +

find /home/username/tmp -type d -exec chmod 770 {} +

chmod 440 /home/username/public_html/sites/default/settings.php

chmod 750 /home/username/public_html/sites/default