baker7 Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 (edited) Good Afternoon Everyone:I recently installed Wordpress 3.01 from wordpresses website. I followed the instructions and made the wordpress database and set the permissions on it as required. I then moved the wordpress install to /var/www/blog for use by BBUS.Now, I have a question relating to the permissions for the wordpress files. They are all Owner "www-data" Group "www-data" and the directory is also set up the same way, like this: drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 2010-09-03 11:56 blogwhile the rest of the directory under blog/ is owner "buddy" Group "buddy"Should I chown this directory to owner "buddy" group "buddy" or chown it root root. ot is there a preferrred way to make sure that a security problem does not exist with the permissions? I dont want to chown the blog directory until I am sure that wordpress won't break with the change. Apparently, I also had to chown the www directory so that I own it, so that I could upload and maintain the website as well, otherwise webstudio complains that it does not have permission to write to the directory, so I made that change.Any assistance here would be extremely helpful Thanks Brian Edited September 3, 2010 by baker7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Besttechie Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Is everything working currently? Permissions can be a tricky and usually vary depending on the setup/configuration. If everything is working, I would leave it unless you run into a permission issue down the road.B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baker7 Posted September 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Jeff:Everything seems to be working correctly and was working correctly with the permissions that were set when she installed..........I will leave /var/www/blog/ at "www-data" "www-data" - It seems to be a safe bet for the moment - Unless something changes with wordpress configs that require the change of owner or group, I won't change it.Thanks,Brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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