{"id":137,"date":"2015-04-09T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alltechbusiness.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:34:05","slug":"setting-wordpress-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/setting-wordpress-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting WordPress Permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use the amazing wp-cli (http:\/\/wp-cli.org\/<\/a>) to install WordPress on my development machine, but for some reason the file and directory permissions are always wrong.<\/p>\n

I have added this step as part of my installation procedure:<\/p>\n

\r\nwp core download # Use wp-cli to download the latest WordPress\r\nchown www-data:www-data -R * # Let apache be owner\r\nfind . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \\; # Change directory permissions rwxr-xr-x\r\nfind . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \\; # Change file permissions rw-r--r--<\/pre>\n
This sets all the permissions correctly so Apache no longer gives any errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I use the amazing wp-cli (http:\/\/wp-cli.org\/) to install WordPress on my development machine, but for some reason the file and directory permissions are always wrong. I have added this step as part of my installation procedure: wp core download # Use wp-cli to download the latest WordPress chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let apache be owner find . -type d…<\/p>\n
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