Active Oldest Votes. EDIT: You might also need to change your umask to so new directories created by WordPress will have permissions and files will have permissions.
Another option is to override default file permissions in wp-config. These can be defined in wp-config. Improve this answer. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Ah, after getting in touch with the faculty, it looks like it's defaulting to SSH while my test instance hits up direct IO.
So it's his user that doesn't have rights to create the directory. Show 1 more comment. Otto Otto Phil Gardner Phil Gardner 1.
Mark Kaplun Varun Varun If there is more detailed solution, add it here, instead of linking to it. MarkKaplun but then extension updates don't work, which bulk of WP users considers "normal" way to run a site.
A little too strong of a statement. Server being able to write over wp-content is relatively worse for security, but by itself it's not a huge problem.
MarkKaplun: Even the accepted answer basically says the same thing - the only thing that it is specific to Apache while mine is generic. If your answer is the same, what is the point of having it? Who said the accepted answer is great? Rarst, it is also less convenient to lock the front door of the house and close the windows. If people prefer to look for hacked files all over their server instead of just in the uploads directory they can do what the answer suggested.
Kumar Saurabh Kumar Saurabh 1. Please edit your answer , and add an explanation: why could that solve the problem? Why do you think it's a good solution to let everyone read, write, and execute files in these directories? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. The root WordPress directory: all files should be writable only by your user account, except.
Theme files. If you want to use the built-in theme editor, all files need to be writable by the web server process. If you do not want to use the built-in theme editor, all files can be writable only by your user account. Permissions may vary. Assuming: wp-config. In my case I created a specific user for WordPress which is different from the apache default user that prevent access from the web to those files owned by that user.
Then it gives permission to apache user to handle the upload folder and finally set secure enough file and folder permissions. After a while developing WordPress sites I'd recommend different file permissions per environment:. In production, I wouldn't give access to users to modify the filesystem, I'll only allow them to upload resources and give access to some plugins specific folders to do backups, etc.
But managing projects under Git and using deploy keys on the server, it isn't good update plugins on staging nor production. I leave here the production file setup:. These permissions will give you access to develop under themes and your-plugin folder without asking permission. The rest of the content will be owned by the Apache or Nginx user to allow WP to manage the filesystem. It actually depends on the plugins you plan to use as some plugins change the root document of the wordpress.
This is important because it prevents any kind of execution in "html" folder, also since the owner of the html folder and all other folders except the wp-content folder are "root" or your user , the www-data can't modify any file outside of the wp-content folder, so even if there is any vulnerability in the web server, and if someone accessed to the site unauthorizedly, they can't delete the main site except the plugins.
This will restrict the permission of accessing to "wp-config. And in Nginx same procedure for the apache to protect the wp-admin folder from unauthorized accessing, and probing. To absolutely make sure that your website is secure and you are using correct permissions for your folders, use a security plugin like these:.
These plugins will scan your Wordpress installation and notify you about any potential issues. These will also warn you about any insecure folder permissions. In addition to that, these plugins will recommend you what permissions should be assigned to the folders. I has having problems with plugins and migration, and after further messing things up by chmod'ing permissions, I found these three lines which solved all my problems. Not sure if it's the proper way but worked for me.
Based on all the reading and agonizing on my own sites and after having been hacked I have come up with the above list that includes permissions for a security plugin for Wordpress called Wordfence. Not affiliated with it. The above command changes permissions of everything in the wordpress install to the wordpress FTP user. The above command ensures that the security plugin Wordfence has access to its logs.
The uploads directory is also writeable by www-data. The above command also ensures that the security plugin has required read write access for its proper function.
Set the permissions for wp-config. Permissions of didn't work for me with above file ownership. Fortunately a very reliable plugin called ssh-sftp-updater-support free makes automatic updates using SFTP possible without need for libssh2. So the above permissions never have to be loosened except in rare cases as needed. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Correct file permissions for WordPress [closed] Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed k times. Craig 1, 4 4 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. Both of these concepts are same in a contextual manner, however, the former is being used on the server. What makes users and groups important is that they help in recognizing identifying files and folder privileges.
Any user, who is the owner, of a particular file usually have complete privileges on that file; a few other users belonging to the same group as the owner will have lesser privileges to the file. In simple terms, permission is something that makes users authorized to read, write, modify and access different files and directories, belonging to a website. In WordPress, permission is normally highlighted by a set of different numbers, such as: or Note: Permissions can vary from one host to the other.
An FTP client provides an interface that allows to change the permissions of all the files and folders in a highly convenient manner. The interface of the FTP client looks something like:. You can find many different server configurations that requires a distinct set of permission modes to make a WordPress site work in a proper and secure manner. Standard Server Configuration — This WordPress configuration does not have any relationship between the user account and web server.
This is because the configuration requires that the web server must run as any other user account. Before we start with the process of setting up permissions for the files for the standard server configuration, we must make some adjustments to the ownerships of files and folders taking into account the following considerations:.
And, to figure out the groups that your web server is a part of use the following PHP script:. If you come across a situation where your user and the web server belongs to a different group, then you can add a user to any group of your web server, by using the below provided command in the terminal:. In order to ensure that your user account has access to all the things of your WordPress folder and belongs to the newly created shared group, simply run the below mentioned command within the folder of your WordPress install:.
Abiding by all of the aforementioned commands will ensure that all the files and folders of your WordPress site have correct ownership. Lastly, all you have to do is to make adjustments to the file and folder permission mode.
To do so, you must keep the following key points in mind:.
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