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I'm setting up an Ubuntu server - and have everything working well. &nbsp;I want to ensure, however, that I have the file ownership and permissions set properly.<br />
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The site is a Drupal 8 site, so the only files that need to be writeable by the web-user are located in /sites/default/files<br />
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Currently - everything in the site has the ownership of root. &nbsp;Should ownership of everything in the public_html folder be changed to the apache username of www-data from root?<br />
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Then - for the files/directories that need to be writeable to by the CMS - should those then be set to something like 644 - with the directories being 755?<br />
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I'm a little new with the sysadmin stuff. &nbsp;Any help would be appreciated!
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I'm setting up an Ubuntu server - and have everything working well.  I want to ensure, however, that I have the file ownership and permissions set properly.

The site is a Drupal 8 site, so the only files that need to be writeable by the web-user are located in /sites/default/files

Currently - everything in the site has the ownership of root.  Should ownership of everything in the public_html folder be changed to the apache username of www-data from root?

Then - for the files/directories that need to be writeable to by the CMS - should those then be set to something like 644 - with the directories being 755?

I'm a little new with the sysadmin stuff.  Any help would be appreciated!

Linux/Apache File Ownership/Permissions

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