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What are the best linux permissions to use for my website?

I'm having an issue that I can't seem to find an answer for, i've already scoured Google & SF and haven't found an answer, i've fixed this before by changing ownership, but i'm not sure how I did it in the past.

I am doing my WordPress development in a Kubuntu VM, where I have a LAMP setup (installed through tasksel for ease of installation). When I go to try to update/install any plugins (or presumably themes), it does the thing that it asks for the FTP credentials.

All of my production servers run NGINX, so this isn't a huge deal as I know how to set up an LEMP environment to run all of the WP functionality that I need.

I also changed ownership before of the /var/www directory to me (admin user), so I didn't have to type 'sudo' every time that I edited a file, as that is an unnecessary inconvenience.

I'm not completely sure how to fix this, and would REALLY appreciate everyone's help on this.

Thanks in advance

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Zach Russell
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  • If your production server runs nginx, perhaps you should run nginx on your development server as well. – Michael Hampton Jan 12 '13 at 21:54
  • It really makes no difference for WordPress's purposes, and it takes significantly longer to set up NGINX that the "tasksel" command. Which is why I use apache2 on my local environment, then I move to my NGINX QA environment. Also, I dont think anything there answers my qustion, I am fine with WP permissions, I think it has to do with groups and who apache is running as. – Zach Russell Jan 12 '13 at 21:56
  • I figured it out `sudo chown www-data mysite` – Zach Russell Jan 13 '13 at 00:11

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You'll need to give the Apache user access to the Wordpress install's directory so it can write to it.

sudo chown www-data (your site dir)

I had the same issue recently and this was the fix.

EDIT: Doh, you've answered your own question already :)

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