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Hello. I would like to document the full, official, recommended suite of folder permissions.
You see, I am experiencing some anomalies that I sense might be related back to permissions, and have tried a few things; But I thought it would be better to defer to the wider (and more experienced) group.
Now that I think about it, perhaps individual file permissions too?
Any thoughts about exact folder permissions required in the tree below? Can you help fill in the full, recommended permissions?
root
admin [eg: 0755]
inc
tmp
lang
template
images
js
backups
other
pages
zip
data [eg: 0755]
other
logs
pages
thumbs
uploads
plugins
theme
whatever
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Well, I'm having trouble finding this information as well.
I do know that if you want to edit template files within the CP, you have to make each one 777.
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My first glance when I need information on permissions is to check the "health-check" in the support section directly after installing, as recommended at the end of the installation process
I always had the impression that I get good info whether the actual configuration is sufficient or not
what do you think?
1) Did you check and get wrong answers?
- if so it would hint to a bug
2) Did you look for information elsewhere because you did not find this check?
- if so the health check should be announced more prominent
Unfortunately the WIKI is missing some more explicit information, that is clear
but everybody is asked to add information to the WIKI ;=)
so this trhead could help to gather info and find volunteers to add this info to the WIKI ;=)
Cheers, Connie
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At my website
all folders have permission 755.
all files have permission 644.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I didn't check all the files and folders of my GS-website for the permissions.
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i'm not sure the health check is always correct. I tried to setup stricter permissions, so i chowned the files to a different owner (root) and then tried to chgroup to www-data and set write permissions to the group just for some folders and files. I managed to pass the health check, but there still were some problems remaining. Didn't bother to investigate further. chowned to www-data:www-data and everything works fine with 644. So my guess is that health check is missing some minor check.
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Not sure if this helps or if it just repeats what you already know, but I was moving my localhost files onto my webserver, and when I tried to change my password it told me Unable to write config file. CHMOD 777 the folders /data, /backups and their sub-folders and retry. So I guess those folders have to be 777.
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