i can upload images on wordpress only when i give access to the whole document root

Hi @abderbij

You’re chmod’ing with group rights, but you haven’t set the group with chown.

Run this to set user and group recursively on the web directory:

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

yes exactly , please let me know how to make uploads dir owned by apache . thanks for your time!

i was updating wp just like what is mentioned here : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-16-04

When an update becomes available, log back into your server as your sudo user. Temporarily give the web server process access to the whole document root:

sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html Now, go back the WordPress administration panel and apply the update.

When you are finished, lock the permissions down again for security:

sudo chown -R sammy /var/www/html This should only be necessary when applying upgrades to WordPress itself.