Apache file permissions

apache-file-permissions.md

Apache file permissions

Change owner:group recursively on everything in path

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .

Change all the directories to 755 (drwxr-xr-x)

sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Change all the files to 644 (-rw-r--r--)

sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

WordPress

wp-config.php

sudo chmod 660 wp-config.php

.htaccess

sudo chmod 644 .htaccess

SFTP and wp-cli

Add user ubuntu to group www-data

sudo usermod -aG www-data ubuntu

Add group writing ability

sudo chmod -R g+w /path/