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The webmaster does not have permission to write

Just set the site, the site upload file reminder no permission, although the authority is not set up 777, still reminder can not upload the error


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Hi @doreasss I’m guessing your root is /var/www/html and you’re using the default www-data user. Run these commands to reset rights:

find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

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    Hi there: if you using nginx ,please you charge affiliated users is nginx , and set the permissions to 755 , so , you after will no longer be error. (run chown -R nginx * and chmod -R 755 * ) if you using apache , so , it needs to be solved separately

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