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I am quite new to ubuntu and I have been trying to install BuilderEngine, a content management system, to my ubuntu server 12.04 lts. I have figured some things out but I am struggling with permission for files and folders. I know I have to change the permission for folders and files in /var/www/ to be able to read and write files. But I am not sure what to do.

All I know is never use chmod -R 777 /var/www/ because that can read/write/excute files.

Was thinking of trying sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ but not sure.

Pilot6
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user244666
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Make sure the group is www-data on '/var/www'

sudo chgrp www-data /var/www

Make '/var/www' writable for the group

sudo chmod 775 /var/www

Set the GID for www-data for all sub-folders

sudo chmod g+s /var/www

Your directory should look like this on an ls -l output.

drwxrwsr-x

Last, add your username to the www-data group (secondary group)

sudo usermod -a -G www-data [YOURUSERNAME]
Kai
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My Suggestion for the permission you can use below command to find and set p:

find /var/www/html/ -type d -perm 777 |xargs chmod 0755 --
find /var/www/html/ -type f -perm 777 |xargs chmod 0644 --

OR

For Directories: 

 find /path/to/your/wordpress/install/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

For Files: 

find /path/to/your/wordpress/install/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Ramesh Chand
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