How to revert Symfony2.6 file/folder permissions/ownership to default?

Question

I didn't have a very solid server side configuration understanding, specifically between source files permission and ownership.

While trying to solve a 403 issue (whenever I access http://symfonyApp.dev/app_dev.php/ ) I misguidedly issued the command:

sudo chmod -R 777 symfonyAppWebRoot

to my web root where my

• symfonyAppWebRoot/app
• symfonyAppWebRoot/src
• symfonyAppWebRoot/web etc
• etc...

directories reside...

1.)How would I get the default permission/ownership back to my symfony app files/folders?

• perhaps there is a symfony specific command?
• a php shell command? (or a shell file?)

2.) or can somebody just explain to me why I get 403 response accessing app_dev.php (on a clean symfony2.6 install after that reckless chmod .. command)?

Answer 1

Fresh symfony2 project access rights:

chmod 775 *
chmod 775 app/ app/config app/console
chmod 664 app/AppCache.php app/AppKernel.php app/autoload.php app/bootstrap.php.cache app/check.php app/phpunit.xml.dist app/SymfonyRequirements.php
chmod 664 app/config/* -R 
chmod 777 app/cache app/logs 
chmod 775 app/Resources src/ vendor/ web/ -R
chmod 664 app/Resources/base.html.twig

Answer 2

I assume your app_dev.php looks something like this:

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])
    || isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])
    || (!in_array(@$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1')) || php_sapi_name() === 'cli-server')
) {
    header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
    exit('You are not allowed to access this file. Check '.basename(__FILE__).' for more information.');
}
//... more stuff

Please replace header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden'); with die("It seems like my error has nothing to do with file permissions"); and see what happens. If that doesn't change anything, read on.

"1.)How would I get the default permission/ownership back to my symfony app files/folders?"

You can use chgrp -R www-data symfonyAppWebRoot instead of chmod -R 777 symfonyAppWebRoot . As I don't know the original permissions of your files I don't know how to restore those permissions, but It would be something like chmod -R 755 symfonyAppWebROot