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Fix wordpress file permissions
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#!/bin/bash | |
# | |
# This script configures WordPress file permissions based on recommendations | |
# from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions | |
# | |
# Author: Michael Conigliaro <mike [at] conigliaro [dot] org> | |
# | |
WP_OWNER=www-data # <-- wordpress owner | |
WP_GROUP=www-data # <-- wordpress group | |
WP_ROOT=$1 # <-- wordpress root directory | |
WS_GROUP=www-data # <-- webserver group | |
# reset to safe defaults | |
find ${WP_ROOT} -exec chown ${WP_OWNER}:${WP_GROUP} {} \; | |
find ${WP_ROOT} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; | |
find ${WP_ROOT} -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; | |
# allow wordpress to manage wp-config.php (but prevent world access) | |
chgrp ${WS_GROUP} ${WP_ROOT}/wp-config.php | |
chmod 660 ${WP_ROOT}/wp-config.php | |
# allow wordpress to manage wp-content | |
find ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content -exec chgrp ${WS_GROUP} {} \; | |
find ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; | |
find ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; |
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For those who don't know, here are the steps to run this. I'm referring to Ubuntu, so you may need to change some of these steps to match your operating system.
chmod +x / fix-wordpress-permissions.sh
.sh ./fix-wordpress-permissions.sh /home/www/wordpress
.That's it!