Permissions for wordpress

Permissions for wordpress

# add your own user to the www-data group
sudo adduser yourusername www-data

# change ownership to www-data group and your user
sudo chown yourusername:www-data -R /var/www/site

# change permissions of files and folders
cd /var/www/site
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0775 # For directories
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0664 # For files

# make all new files inherit the group www-data
sudo chmod g+s -R /var/www/site