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Issues with SFTP access after using sudo find command
Hello,
I ran the following commands yesterday to update the permissions on files and directories for my WordPress site and now I cannot connect to the parent directory (name.com - example directory name) using SSH or SFTP.
sudo find /var/www/name.com/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/name.com/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
These commands were recommended on this tutorial article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-18-04.
My FTP client (Transmit, macOS) displays this error when trying to connect: Could not change directory to “/var/www/callkneehill.ca/wp-content/themes”.
Could someone share what is going wrong and possibly let me know how best to set permissions so that SSH and SFTP work correctly.
Cheers,
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