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can anyone tell me how can i set permission for all folders to 755 and all files to 644 for my site?
i dont want to do that manually each by each. im on ubuntu 14.04.
thanks in advance.
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Just for your website? If you want to change everything to www-data use:
Directories:
find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
Files:
find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
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