XF 2.1 What are the proper CHMOD Permissions for data and internal_data

[Semper Fidelis]

I had to fix a bunch of permissions today because I installed using the CLI. Normally, folders are set to 0755 and files to 0644.

The data and internal_data need to be writable and the only way I could get an addon to install was to set the permissions for every folder recursively to 077 within data and internal_data. File permissions remained at 0644.

Are these the correct permissions for data and internal_data folders (and subdirectories)?

 

[sbj]

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Data and internal_data (and anything inside) must be chmod 0777 for XF to work correctly.

 

[djbaxter]

Normally, folders are set to 0776 and files to 0644.

What sort of server are you on? Standard for Apache is folders permissions are 0755.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

What sort of server are you on? Standard for Apache is folders permissions are 0755.

CentOS. 0755 is standard except for the data and internal_data folders. Add OMS wouldn’t install until I fixed permissions.

 

[djbaxter]

CentOS. 0755 is standard except for the data and internal_data folders. Add OMS wouldn’t install until I fixed permissions.

Correct. I was responding to your first post above where you said

Normally, folders are set to 0776 and files to 0644

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Correct. I was responding to your first post above where you said

Oops. That was probably because I was tired. Edited.

 

[audiokid]

I would suggest you to read the manual. It answers many questions.

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Data and internal_data (and anything inside) must be chmod 0777 for XF to work correctly.

Re "Data and internal_data (and anything inside) must be chmod 0777 for XF to work correctly."
Does this mean every single file in every folder of those to directories, too?

 

[bzcomputers]

Re "Data and internal_data (and anything inside) must be chmod 0777 for XF to work correctly."
Does this mean every single file in every folder of those to directories, too?

The two directories only.

 

[audiokid]

damn, I've now set a lot of the directories inside those two to 777 as well.

 

[Masetrix]

damn, I've now set a lot of the directories inside those two to 777 as well.

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[Paul B]

In general files and directories should be 0644 and 0755 respectively.

The /data and /internal_data directories should be:
0666/0777 if PHP runs as "nobody" (the web server user)
0644/0755 if it runs as "your" user (suPHP for example)