Permissions problems with wordpress

Question

I urgently need some advice as to why I have to change all files I want to edit to 777? I think there maybe sound thing wrong with the apache user not being the owner. I can only edit any file if I set 777 so anyone can edit it. Any help much appreciated.

cheers

Answer 1

This web page on the wordpress.org website seems to be addressing your issue exactly: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-permissions-avoiding-777

This isn't really a thing that can be controlled from wordpress, but seems to have some relation to the way your hosting company configures its servers.

Answer 2

You shouldn't have to. Often this comes down to the group being incorrect. My wp-content is owned by the user apache and the group apache on a standard Slackware Linux installation.

File permissions are 664 on these. For me, I do:

chown -R apache.apache wp-content
chmod -R o-w wp-content
chmod -R gu+rw wp-content