Joomla Linux Permissions

Question

I installed Joomla 3 to /var/www/html directory in Cent OS 6 server. Currently /var/www/html is owned by apache:apache.

What is the recommended permissions for Joomla installation on Linux in production environment. Who should own what with which permission?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '14 at 05:31

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Here is what finally used as a bash file.

#/bin/bash
chown -R root:root /var/www/html
cd /var/www/html
PLACES='
administrator/components
administrator/modules
administrator/templates
cache
components
images
images/banners
images/articles
language
media
modules
templates
'
for i in $PLACES; do chown -R apache:apache $i; done


find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

answered Oct 23 '14 at 05:31

Kasun

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dont need to if your run with suphp: http://www.suphp.org/Home.html – that guy from over there Oct 23 '14 at 06:37
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I wouldn't give a web server write access to a file or folder if it does not need it. – Question Overflow Oct 23 '14 at 06:57

Joomla Linux Permissions

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