Folder and File Permissions

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Folder Permissions

We recommend to set all folders to 755:

Owner: Read, Write, Execute

Group: Read, Execute

Others: Read, Execute

To change all folders permissions to 755 on Linux terminal:

find path_to_core -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Replace path_to_core with real core root path.

Never set folders permissions to 777 if your website is live.

We recommend to set all files to 644:

Owner: Read, Write

Group: Read

Others: Read

To change all files permissions to 644 on Linux terminal:

find path_to_core -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Replace path_to_core with real core root path.

Never set files permissions to 777 if your website is live.

If you have problem with permissions after you changed the file and folder permissions, You need to check folders and files owner.

Often the Apache server is owned by the www-data, dhapache or nobody user. to change all folder and files owner on Linux terminal:

sudo chown -R www-data path_to_core

Replace path_to_core with real core root path.