Editing WordPress Permissions in LAMP – Ubuntu 11.10

I think that setting all to 777 is not the most secure option.

Basically, my favourite is to change the wordpress to the webserver’s owner. Being:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/

So that the webserver is responsible for handling changes.

Also, you can change the rights to 755 for the whole /var/www branch

sudo chmod -R -c 755 /var/www/

Finally, allow your wp-content/ folder in 775 ( so that you can edit files from the WordPress backend without having to upload files via FTP. ( Not necessarily a best practice but useful from time to time ) via

sudo chmod -R -c 775 /var/www/WORDPRESS/wp-contents/

And you will have a reasonable setup with uploads, editing from backend and a minimum level of security.

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