I found many related questions and tried to solve the issue but I was not successful. Actually I created an user named “amit” and assigned the group “www-data”. I gave permission to the folder using this method
sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www sudo chmod g+w /var/www sudo adduser amit www-data
Change folder and file permission recursively: To change all the directories to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x):
find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
To change all the files to 644 (-rw-r–r–):
find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
But in joomla system info when i check i get all directories as non writable. So I changes this command to
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
Surprisingly this worked. I need to know why the created user didn’t work but this one worked, where did I miss something?
Advertisement
Answer
Applying chmod 755 (rwxr-xr-x) for directories and chmod 644 (rw-r–r–) for files just makes the writable for the owner, but not for the group. If you want to grant the group write permissions then you need 775 and 664.