Constantly Having to Reclaim Wp-Uploads Folder Permissions

I have started noticing this with a few of my OpenLiteSpeed wordpress sites now, running WP 6+.

Each month when the new monthly wp-uploads directory is created (eg October/November /uploads/2021/10/ /2021/11 etc) , the permissions are WRONG.

I get the error “the uploaded file could not be moved to…” and it appears that the folder has been created with root as the owner, and not www-data.

Numerous times I have run the command:

sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/mysite/wp-content/uploads

I recursively run this command on both the uploads directory and wp-content parent directory, but it seems i’m having to run it every month on the new folder created in uploads.

Obviously something is wrong here, can anyone possibly advise what the problem is here?

Not entirely sure how to add an image here but all of my folders are www-data:www-data, it seems the new ones are being created with the wrong permissions.

Any advice much appreciated. Thanks. Its getting annoying and i’m losing business because my website relies on users adding content and listings, and if they cant upload images i’ll be losing money.