Sets permissions on an ExpressionEngine 2 install

ee2_permissions.sh

#!/bin/bash
# File:        exp_permissions.sh
# Description: Sets permssions on a ExpressionEngine 2 install
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# Get the working directory
DIR=$(pwd)

# The default ExpressionEngine system folder
DEFAULT="system"

# The message shown if we can't find a file / folder
ERROR_MESSAGE="Not found so no action taken:"

# Has the user changed the system folder name?
printf "Enter your system folder name (default: system):\n" 
read SYSTEM_FOLDER

# If no value is entered set default
if [ "$SYSTEM_FOLDER" == "" ] 
then
    SYSTEM_FOLDER=$DEFAULT
fi

# Declare files and folders as arrays
FILES_666[0]=$DIR/$SYSTEM_FOLDER/expressionengine/config/config.php 
FILES_666[1]=$DIR/$SYSTEM_FOLDER/expressionengine/config/database.php 

DIRS_777[0]=$DIR/images/avatars/uploads/ 
DIRS_777[1]=$DIR/images/captchas/ 
DIRS_777[2]=$DIR/images/member_photos/ 
DIRS_777[3]=$DIR/images/pm_attachments/ 
DIRS_777[4]=$DIR/images/signature_attachments/ 
DIRS_777[5]=$DIR/images/uploads/ 
DIRS_777[6]=$DIR/$SYSTEM_FOLDER/expressionengine/cache/

# Check files exist and change permissions
for FILE in ${FILES_666[@]}
do
    if [ -e $FILE ]
    then
        chmod 666 $FILE
    else
        printf "$ERROR_MESSAGE $FILE\n"
    fi
done

# Check directories exist and change permissions
for DIR in ${DIRS_777[@]}
do
    if [ -d $DIR ]
    then
        chmod -R 777 $DIR
    else
        printf "$ERROR_MESSAGE $DIR\n"
    fi
done

This is a nice looking script and is conveniently expandable, but why not just create an alias to do the same thing?

alias eepermissions="sudo chmod 666 system/expressionengine/config/{config.php,database.php} && 
    sudo chmod -R 777 system/expressionengine/cache && 
    sudo chmod -R 777 system/expressionengine/templates"

My alias doesn't have it, but you could easily add images.

I thought about an alias but wanted to include some error handling and make it extensible. The nice thing about UNIX if that there is no right way of doing something so if you prefer an alias then great.

One thing I thought about was adding project specific folders. This works for both the alias and the script with &&:

ee2_permissions.sh && chmod 777 images/somefolder

eepermissions && chmod 777 images/somefolder

Eventually I'd like to be able to pass the script arguments so I'd get error handling if anything went wrong.

Accept your point it may be overkill for something so simple!