Question
How to configure VPS so that it is not nessacery to have 777 permissions on public_html for wordpress installation?
- Posted on December 17, 2013
Asked by marcel
I am doing an installation of Wordpress on my VPS. During isntallation I had to set public_hml permissions to 777. Of course, I changed it back after installation, but how can I prevent this on the next installation?
I am intending to install multiple wordpress sites soon, and want the installation to be as smooth as possible. And of course, I am just curious how this works. My folder and files all have owner of my server, and since 750 on public_html gives enough permission for a owner to install wordpress I am curious how it is possible that I have unsufficient permissions.
Thanks!
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Hi, Thanks! Very usefull article, added to favorites. <br> <br>For now, I fixed it by setting owner of all wordpress files to www-data.
Check out this article-- it may address your issue: <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-secure-updates-and-installations-in-wordpress-on-ubuntu
Apologies for all these comments, but I found out that on Ubuntu it has to be www-data instead of apache. I have run that command, and restarted apache, but still my I have not sufficient rights to do almost anything. For example, I cannot install plugins and upload files unless I set permissions to 777