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CyberAbhay
CyberAbhay

Reputation: 534

What are the correct /wp-content folder permissions to upload file by filezilla and php(wordpress)?

I have aws EC2 and I installed WordPress, I am unable to upload a file from FTP and wordpress, one at a time works.

Scenario 1:if i change 'var/www/html' folders permissions to 755 and owner as ubuntu:ubuntu then i can upload using filezilla but not from wordpress.wordpress shows 'unable to move file '/wp-content/uploads

Scenario 2 :if i change owner to www-data:www-data then can upload from WordPress but not from FileZilla. It shows error open for write: permission denied

I have used following commands for FileZilla to work:

sudo chown -R ubuntu: ubuntu /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/public_html/wp-content/

With this FileZilla can upload, but WordPress not so I used following to WordPress to work:

sudo chown -R data:www-data /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/public_html/wp-content/

Question What permission,/owner should I configure to ../wp-content/so both FTP and FileZilla can upload files.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8768

Answers (1)

agent420
agent420

Reputation: 3521

Simply add user 'ubuntu' to a secondary group www-data.

usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu

Now change ownership to ubuntu:www-data

sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/public_html/wp-content/

You could also run the following command so that all the new files created are owned by the group

chmod g+s /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/public_html/wp-content/

If you want to fine-tune your control, you could use Access Control Lists .

sudo setfacl -d -m group:www-data:rw /var/www/lifestyledesignpros.com/public_html/wp-content/

Upvotes: 2

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