Setting WordPress permissions

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WordPress file permissions

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

For modified WordPress directory structure

Default file permissions

For files, within site directory:
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

For directories:
find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

Owner

All files should be owned by your user account, and should be writable by you.

sudo chown -R username directoryname

Any file that needs write access from WordPress should be writable by the web server… that may mean those files need to be group-owned by the user account used by the web server process.

From within site directory:
sudo chown -R _www app/plugins/ app/uploads/

Secured permissions

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Finding_Secure_File_Permissions
chmod 644 wp-config.php